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Let a bill, or law, be read, in the one branch or the other, every one instantly thinks how it will affect his 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.

I grew up when 'Schoolhouse Rock' taught millions of American kids how a bill becomes a law.

I think members of the legislature, people who have to run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed.

I think there's a lot to learn from Rockefeller on how to pass legislation.

I've been studying the Constitution for myself but also as a way for me, as a Democrat, to comprehend the Right. I think it's important that people who are politically active understand both sides.

It teaches us how to run our lives individually. How to run our families, how to run our churches. But it teaches us how to run all our public policy and everything in society. And that's the reason, as your congressman, I hold the Holy Bible as being the major directions to me of how I vote in Washington, D.C., and I'll continue to do that.

I learned some valuable lessons about the legislative process, the importance of bipartisan cooperation and the wisdom of taking small steps to get a big job done.

I want to raise up the next generation of young people who are going to run this community. I need for them to understand government and how it works.

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.