The point is that what we want, Democrats, and what we've always wanted, is to make abortion safe, legal, and rare.

If you dared to put your opinion into a factual piece, your editors said, "You can't do this. Write an op-ed."

I've faced the grief, I've faced the anger, and I'm ready to keep up the fight because America is worth fighting for.

Unfortunately, Trump has showed hateful inclinations toward many, many groups. Many groups. The most obvious: undocumented immigrants and Muslims. His comments that I've seen that he's made about Jewish people, about black people - they're all very troubling to me - even though he sort of said, "Oh, I distance myself from hate and don't do any of this hating stuff."

Medical professionals, not insurance company bureaucrats, should be making health care decisions.

Look, all this is about is utilizing the rules of the Senate, using a majority of the senators, to make sure that we get health reform done. We cannot wait another day.

Really, life is complicated enough without having a bunch of Senators deciding what we should do in the privacy of our own homes.