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I've been in Congress 14 years. I've been on the Appropriations Committee in which we are in charge of trying to move legislation.

Rather than negotiating yet another continuing resolution at the last minute, the appropriations process should work as it was originally designed, with appropriations bills passing the House and the Senate and being signed into law by the president, after robust debate, with a process for amendments.

I'm running for senator because it's time for a change.

I'd like to think I'm a serious legislator and trying to get things done.

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.

As a state senator and then a congressman, I've had the privilege of trying to do good things for people to whom I owe so much and can never fully repay.

We get paid to do this work, and fellow senators need to do their jobs.

Most senators are just going to work and trying to do a job.

In America, our differences matter, but our country matters more. That's the attitude I wanted to take to the Senate.

I like to think I am a serious legislator and trying to get things done. That's my goal in life, to get things done.