If you look through history, all of the great work we've done in Congress has been around a table of compromise, when it comes to the most difficult problems.
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One of the problems the Republican Party has had is that we're too fast to compromise. You can compromise on the little stuff, but you can't compromise on your core principles.
Politics is compromise.
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex - but Congress can.
My father ran for Congress in 2004, and I got a sense that there is no way to achieve much success without a certain amount of compromise.
A compromise is but an act of Congress. It may be overruled at any time. It gives us no security. But the Constitution is stable. It is a rock.
When Congress legislates in haste, it often causes more problems than it solves. But Congress rarely reconsiders its mistakes.
When you work in the United States Senate, and you are around people of all different ideas and beliefs, you realize that what our Founding Fathers did that was so genius, is that they made the Senate the place where compromises are supposed to happen because of the makeup of the Senate.
I don't look forward to a time when every politician, every legislator goes to Washington absolutely committed to an extreme point of view. Elected representatives are sent to Washington to compromise, not to never compromise.
Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.
Congress is unable to do the work of the American people because too many politicians believe that compromise means capitulation.