I've Often Wished We Had More Women

The Classic Example I've Used - I'm Sure You've Heard Me Say It Before - Was Mark Begich In Alaska Who Was Here For A Full Six Years And Never Had A Roll Call Vote On An Amendment On The Floor Of The Senate, Which Dan Sullivan Tells Me He Used On Virtually A Daily Basis. So The Notion That Protecting All Of Your Members From Votes Is A Good Idea Politically, I Think, Has Been Pretty Much Disproved By The Recent [barack Obama] Election.

It's A Shame That The President Doesn't Embrace The Effort To Reduce Spending. None Of Us Like Using Situations Like The Sequester Or The Debt Ceiling Or The Operation Of Government To Try To Engage The President To Deal With This.

I've Said Repeatedly Publicly, And Other Members Have, That Until You Adjust The Eligibility For Entitlements, Do Things Like Raising The Age For Medicare For Future Beneficiaries. Not For Those Currently Receiving Or Those About To Receive. Have Serious Means Testing For High Income People. You Know Warren Buffett's Always Complaining About Not Paying Enough Taxes. And What I'm Complaining About Is We're Paying For His Medicare. We Ought Not To Be Providing These Kinds Of Benefits For Millionaires And Billionaires.

I Think It Is To The Advantage Of My State To Have The Opportunity To Come To Meetings Occasionally And To Vote In Person, Rather Than Just By Proxy.

I Honestly Thought We Wouldn't Hold The U.s. Senate. I Thought We'd Come Up Short And I Didn't Think President Donald Trump Had A Chance Of Winning. Given My Expectations, Doubly Exciting Because I Thought We'd Come Up Short On The Senate. We Had A Lot Of Exposure. That Was Really Something. But It Never Occurred To Me That He Might Be Able To Win As Well.