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If you push down that pyramid of power and spread out the base, every member gets a chance to file their bill and have it heard and file their amendment and have it heard, as opposed to the system that we have now, which closes out, closes down bills, limits debate, and so forth.

Senators will do what they think they need to do to represent their constituents.

The way it's supposed to work is you pass a bill out of the House, you pass a bill out of the Senate, you go to conference on it, and you iron out the differences.

What I find is most people have a civics book understanding for how Congress works and how a bill moves.

The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law.

If you force legislators to balance, at the end of the day, if it has to be balanced, then they step up and they become legislators and can find out where to cut.

Educate yourself, take the time to find out what is in a bill and how it will effect everything, and not just how it effects you in the short term, but what the long term consequences of a bill, law or legislations will have an everyone and every community, altimetry effecting you!

The important thing to understand about legislators is that there are dozens of competing interests and issues that occupy them. They are stretched thin.

I love working the legislative process.

There are bills being discussed to raise the amount that Members of Congress pay in to their benefits and I support these pieces of legislation.