[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 8]
[Senate]
[Page 10639]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   LEGISLATIVE PROCESS IN THE SENATE

  Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I wish to share a few lines from an 
opinion piece Speaker Boehner wrote last week. It began:

       In November, the American people decided to entrust 
     Republicans with control of the U.S. Senate, where common-
     sense jobs bills too often went to die in recent years. Now, 
     since the start of this year, the Republican majority of the 
     U.S. House finally has a willing partner in our work on 
     behalf of the American people. It is an opportunity we 
     haven't let go to waste.

  The Speaker is hardly the only one who feels good about a new Senate 
that is back to work for the American people. The State work period was 
a good reminder of just that. Over the past week, Kentuckians repeated 
similar sentiments at events I attended across the Commonwealth.
  It is no surprise our constituents feel this way because the American 
people see more signs of more open debate in the new Senate. They see 
more opportunities for Senators in both parties to take a stake in the 
legislative process. They see us passing bills. They see committees 
working again. Quite a bit of bipartisan reform legislation has emerged 
from committees already, often with strong support from both parties.

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