government not work as often as possible. now, i want to be clear. the senate has actually done some good bipartisan work this year. bipartisan majorities have passed common sense legislation to fix the immigration system and upgrade the ports. it's passed a farm bill that helped rural communities and vulnerable americans. legislation to protect people being fired. we know there are folks there, republican and democrat, who want to get things down. and frankly, privately, they have expressed to me their recognition that the system in the senate had broken down and what used to be a sporadic exercise of the filibuster had gotten completely out of hand. i believe, i'm confident that that spirit will have a little more space now. i want us to make sure that we can do more work together to grow the economy and to create