It is essential that we provide the best possible care for our wounded and disabled veterans.

I mean, if you go back to 1960 on major pieces of legislation, the filibuster was used about eight percent of the time.

It's very, very difficult I think for us to have a transparent debate about secret programs approved by a secret court issuing secret court orders based on secret interpretations of the law.

The Senate as an institution is broken. We're not doing the work of the American people and the rules are being abused. The only way to get us back to the traditions where the Senate is doing the work of the American people is to change the rules.

A majority of senators should be able to adopt rules at the beginning of each Congress.

I have served in the Congress during two wars and I have seen the impacts on our military, on their families and on our national deficit.

They rushed to move it forward, uh, and then a lawsuit was filed and we spent many months litigating, rather than trying to come up with legislation and move forward on that front.