It shouldn't take a constitutional crisis or an attack on the nation to create honest dialogue in the Senate.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
If the Senate can't perform its most basic responsibilities, I worry about how we're going to make the tough decisions and do the hard work that will be necessary to get our country on a path to fiscal solvency.
Many times, the Senate talks of things and never gets anything through.
The Senate cannot confirm an individual... who would support a scheme that violates our Constitution, eviscerates congressional authority.
The Constitution gives the president the power to appoint, upon the advice and consent of a majority of the Senate, and it plainly does not give a minority of senators any right to interfere with that process.
My viewpoint is the Senate is dysfunctional.
Denying the president a constitutional voice is the real threat to our system of separated powers.
I will say, nothing in my time in the Senate has more surprised me than senators and House members want to weigh in on everything under the sun, but they do not want to weigh in on a clearly defined constitutional duty to declare war. It just stuns me.
My job in the Senate is not just to give speeches and do interviews, it's to solve problems.
Senators will do what they think they need to do to represent their constituents.
Let's cause some senators distress.