humphrey. i was able to meet him and i met muriel later. family and their son skip and others i have gotten to know. one thing apple did not realize about hubert humphrey -- people did not realize about hubert humphrey. i was -- there is a movie out on him, we chose how much he did -- he did work across the aisle. he transcended party lines and in that way he is a big role model for me. >> do you enjoy being in the senate? >> i do. i really do. i think that it is a place that needs improvement. i think some of the new rule changes, while they are tough to deal with, are the right thing to do. we should not be wasting our one on hours of debate not an amendment but a person and we should have up or down votes more often and we should move things along and that would make people feel a lot better about themselves and the institution, and certainly we would be serving democracy better. when the president talked in the state of the union about the soldier and how it is not easy, the soldier was in a coma after sustaining a roadside bomb attack a