The White House has a choice: They can change course, or they can double down on a vision of government that the American people have roundly rejected.

What happens in committee if the committee functions, more often than not, not every time but more often than not, a bill comes out with bipartisan support.

I've often wished we had more women in the Senate.

The worst day of my political life was when President George W. Bush signed McCain-Feingold into law.

We didn't make much progress on the country's agenda. And in my view it's because the Senate basically hadn't done much of anything, with a couple of exceptions, for the last four years [of Barack Obama's presidency]. And that's going to change.

For everybody who thinks it's warming, I can find somebody who thinks it isn't.

We hear the stories every day now: the father who puts on a suit every morning and leaves the house so his daughter doesn't know he lost his job, the recent college grad facing up to the painful reality that the only door that's open to her after four years of study and a pile of debt is her parents'. These are the faces of the Obama economy.