In the United States Senate, we cannot do great things without reaching across the aisle and working together - and I look forward to the challenges ahead.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We will face the challenges head on. We will work with both parties, across the aisle, to make our state better.
When you have a Senate that is 50 Democrats and 49 Republicans and one independent, it's quite obvious that the only way we are going to get something done is if we work together.
I feel that I am best positioned to fight for America's future here in the trenches of the United States Senate.
These are challenging times at home and around the world. We will have to work together in a bipartisan spirit and with our international partners if we are going to achieve progress and peace now and for future generations.
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.
Some of my colleagues seem more interested in using every procedural method possible to keep the Senate from doing anything than they are in creating jobs or helping Americans struggling in a difficult economy.
I want to do my part in fighting for America's future. That's why I have decided to run for the United States Senate.
This nation has been through hard times. But those hard times have hardened our resolve. I'm ready to do the difficult work ahead. But I want to do that work with Barack Obama, and not a Tea Party ideologue. We can move America forward, but we can only do it together.
If you look through history, all of the great work we've done in Congress has been around a table of compromise, when it comes to the most difficult problems.
I've been around Congress long enough to know there are issues we may never see eye-to-eye from the opposite aisle, but we should all agree that our job is to move America forward and benefit the people.
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