The Senate is an institution that has abdicated its constitutional responsibilities and is in need of reform to function effectively.

“The Senate is the most unusual body in the world. Our framers designed it to be that way, and and it was ingrained in me the filibuster is the only thing. It's the holy grail of keeping us talking and working and becoming friends. Jeff being on the Republican side, Tina and I at the time on the Demo”

The Senate's current rules and extreme partisanship severely impede its ability to address the problems that are most important to the American public.

“I think that the Senate rules have so completely stymied the ability of the Senate to do anything that um and I'm not just talking about the filibuster. I think there's going to be you know, there's got to be a way of figuring out how to make the systems of the Senate work better.”

The United States Senate is currently failing its purpose by willingly surrendering its Article 1 constitutional responsibilities to the executive branch.

“they've abdicated basically responsibilities of what what their purpose of being there.”