that. >> chris, i got to the point -- so many good people up here, both democrats and republicans. they're all my friends. i work with them. when you get us together, it sounds like we make sense. we want things to work. and all of a sudden all the power transfers to two people, the majority leader and minority leader who makes a decision what moves and doesn't move. the majority sets the agenda. i keep thinking my be loved robert c. byrd laying in his grave, he's got to be twisting and turning thinking how did we get to this. we've got to come back to regular order and where other senators have input and our voices are heard. we're able to move the dialogue. that's where you saw the common sense coalition come together with susan collins and so many democrats and republicans. we had 25 senators about equally divided, ds and rs who want the place to work and make sense and understands there's a pathway forward. that's what we've been working