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My viewpoint is the Senate is dysfunctional.

Congress is dysfunctional.

You can see how dysfunctional this Congress is.

Many times, the Senate talks of things and never gets anything through.

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.

I think dealing with the U.S. Senate is very different from dealing with the electorate.

It's a cliche that the Senate is broken, and like most cliches, it's true.

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.

I find it very difficult to see a scenario where financial regulation doesn't pass the Senate.

Too many of my Senate colleagues overdid it. They stayed on too long - napping through committee hearings when they should have packed up and gone home.