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Rome had Senators too, that's why it declined.

If the Republicans get control back of the United States Senate, we will no longer have a check and balance on the White House, on the Republican Congress.

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.

What we need now is a Treaty of the World not a Treaty of Rome.

Let's clean up the Senate and return to politics of common ground.

What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that's just not what the founders intended.

The Senate was an odd compromise between the founders and the early leaders of the republic who wanted a single house which was based on popular sovereignty representing the people and those founders who wanted two houses, the upper house, the Senate, being the more aristocratic.

What's going on in the Senate is kind of a politics of escalation. We're getting sort of like the Mideast: pay back everybody when you're in charge.

We are a Republic with different branches of government, and so the Senate and the House are going to be full partners in working with the White House.

The Senate as an institution is broken. We're not doing the work of the American people and the rules are being abused. The only way to get us back to the traditions where the Senate is doing the work of the American people is to change the rules.