I was really shocked after all of this talk about coal miners and all of this talk about Buy America, the Republicans and the House of Representatives gutted health care and pension protections for coal miners and removed the Buy America provision that had been put in the bill in a bipartisan basis.

I've been very independent from the day I arrived in Washington.

When you work in the United States Senate, and you are around people of all different ideas and beliefs, you realize that what our Founding Fathers did that was so genius, is that they made the Senate the place where compromises are supposed to happen because of the makeup of the Senate.

I think Donald Trump can take major steps towards reassuring the American people that there can't even be appearance of impropriety for pay-to-play schemes under his administration.

So it is the business community and agricultural community who I think might have the most influence on helping us make this effort more bipartisan.

I believe that sexual assault - if this is possible - was even more underreported when I was in school.

Obviously, I have been a pro-choice candidate for my entire political career, and obviously there is controversy always surrounding this issue.