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There has been talk of lack of consensus, but we all know that this is the veto of foreign powers, the intolerable situation in our 21st century America.

Can any of you seriously say the Bill of Rights could get through Congress today? It wouldn't even get out of committee.

Today, the most important political instrument in the hands of the opposition is the presidential veto.

If the Republicans get control back of the United States Senate, we will no longer have a check and balance on the White House, on the Republican Congress.

It is not just for a few states to sit and veto global approvals.

In the absence of a Congress ready to act to reduce gun violence, we will keep working to create a different Congress.

I'd like to see a comprehensive gun control bill brought to the floor, but if we have to do it in several votes, that's fine, too. But give us the vote. Let us make our case to our colleagues on the floor and have a vote.

Only we, the public, can force our representatives to reverse their abdication of the war powers that the Constitution gives exclusively to the Congress.

If there is a nuclear tactic being used here, I submit it is the use of that obstruction where a willful minority blocks a bipartisan majority from voting on the President's judicial nominees.