Sen. John Curtis on why he likes the Senate better, and his strategy to get things done

Utah Sen. John Curtis is happy he made the decision to leave his seat in the U.S. House of Representatives to run for the U.S. Senate.

Curtis said he prefers his new position in the Senate, and that the transition made for a “dramatic” difference.

“The culture of the two, the House and the Senate, is so radically different,” he said.

In the House, lawmakers are competing with over 400 members to be the loudest voice in the hopes that their legislation gets attention, he said.

”There’s a lot of people who can get attention by being outrageous, and so the House tends to foster a little bit more of that than the Senate," Curtis said.

Utah’s freshman senator, a Republican, spoke about his transition to Congress’ upper chamber at the University of Utah’s Hinckley Institute of Politics, as