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

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.

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

Man is now in charge of the thermostat for the globe.

Encouraging underground uranium mining on the Colorado Plateau um, the federal government was the only purchaser of uranium ore to try to manufacture uh, atomic bombs.

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.

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.