We'll look to the fall and if there is a new president and a new Senate that's part of a Congress willing to change, that's the next step.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
If we are to change America, we must change the United States Congress.
Congress should get the job done.
Reform is not for the short-winded. I'm committed to making sure the Senate is more than just a graveyard for good ideas.
I'd like to see that bipartisanship come back that we used to have in the House of Representatives, in the Clinton years. I think there's a possibility that the voters are going to send the message that everybody running - Congress, the Senate, the presidency - that they want us to come together.
Either we start cutting the government and shrinking the size of government, or else we're going to face the political wrath of the American people.
We plan to pick up another five seats in the Senate and hold the House through redistricting through 2012. And rather than negotiate with the teachers' unions and the trial lawyers and the various leftist interest groups, we intend to break them.
What I've said about compromise, I hope to build a conservative majority so bipartisanship becomes Democrats joining Republicans to roll back the size of government, reduce the bureaucracy, and get America moving again.
Now that we have the Senate and the House fully controlled by Republicans, we need to be working together.
What I think is at stake in 2012, is whether the five or six strong conservatives elected to the Senate in 2010 become 10 or 12. And if that happens, it will fundamentally shift the character of the Senate. It will shift the balance.
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.
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