Access to computers and the Internet has become a basic need for education in our society.

We've got to have major health care reform because that is the 800-pound gorilla. That is the thing that can swamp the boat fiscally for the United States.

America was founded on majority rule, not supermajority rule. Somehow, over the years, this has morphed into supermajority rule, and that changes things.

Highway spending, which I think most everybody says is badly needed in this country, creates American jobs, and also makes America more competitive.

Reconciliation cannot be used to pass comprehensive health care reform. It won't work because it was never designed for that kind of significant legislation; it was designed for deficit reduction.

So I put that all together and I find it makes it hard to justify a filibuster.

The reality is no one knows how much it will cost us to wage war with Iraq.