My deal is you start as far to the right as you can get, and go to the conference committee with the Senate, and hopefully end up with something you can live with.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I'm interested in being part of a majority in the Senate.
If things go right, maybe I'll chair the Appropriations Committee.
You should go to the polls, organize yourself. But once lawmakers are chosen, they must be respected.
I simply want to do what I can to have the best Congress possible representing the American people.
I'd like to think I'm a serious legislator and trying to get things done.
I see good ideas on the Republican side as well as the Democratic side. You have to return civility and statesmanship to governance. If you don't do that, it doesn't matter what portfolio of issue you're pushing, nothing is going to get done.
My whole deal is I want to have a principle-based, member-driven caucus.
But on the big things, I'm not going to trim in order to win public opinion. Because I really don't want to serve in the Senate if I arrive there without permission to do the things I think need to be done.
If it's necessary to join a caucus and get a committee assignment, I'll do it.
All I want to do is get back to a principle-based Congress.
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