Legislative novelty is not necessarily fatal; there is a first time for everything.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I'm the only person that has ever run a principle-based legislative body.
Clearly there are always unintended consequences of any legislative or regulatory act that's taken in the heat of battle.
Fundamentally, legislation that is historic, that is comprehensive, that has a large number of senators supporting it is more durable.
It is very difficult to get legislation passed. But then the danger always is that you have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare.
Once it becomes impossible for members of Congress to make a career of legislative service, the temptation to bend a vote for whatever reason may yield to the better angels of their nature.
Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.
Failure is never fatal. But failure to change can and might be.
The deterioration of a government begins almost always by the decay of its principles.
Nothing happens in any legislative body that's not purposeful.