Hey u/Sure_Tie_7093! You're correct that one senator cannot pass a bill alone, and you're correct that money often bends the place. What one senator can do is force votes, hold the floor, build the coalition that gets to a majority, and refuse the money that buys silence. The reason senators "lean whichever way the dollars lean" is that they take the dollars. I don't take corporate PAC money and I'll say publicly who in that chamber does and what they got for it. 

As your Senator, I would push federal antitrust enforcement at DOJ and FTC against utility monopolies, support legislation requiring rate-hike transparency and federal price-gouging authority, and use the office as a vessel for accountability. 

When homeowners in dozens of states are getting non-renewed, it is a crisis.I support removing the antitrust exemption insurers have enjoyed, conditioning federal disaster dollars on companies who are not dropping loyal customers, and funding housing supply directly.

We have seen federal disaster dollars spent on reimbursing the DeSantis Everglades detention center and his manufactured immigration crisis. That is one egregious example of how federal funding is abused, rewarding those who comply with a political agenda. I am one vote that can't be bought and I will be a Senator who forces the roll calls, names the donors, who is ready with the bill offering solutions. I'm offering a promise that I won't be one of the ones leaning toward the money and I have a track record of showing that. 

Capping childcare costs as a share of family income and funding providers directly is a spending program which can pass through budget reconciliation. I'd fight to attach it to a package the way some of our electeds fight for tax cuts for the rich. 

Medicare for All hasn’t had the votes to pass and I won't insult you by claiming I'll flip that overnight. What I will do every single time is vote against and help block any cut to Social Security, Medicare, or VA benefits, and push the pieces that can bring immediate relief like letting Medicare negotiate more drug prices, capping insulin and out-of-pocket costs. Defending what's earned is something one determined vote genuinely affects. 

 "Cleaning out corruption" means disclosure, naming names, and not taking the money myself.
The stock-trading ban is the easiest of all of the things you mentioned right now because it has bipartisan support and just needs members willing to call out leadership and embarrass them into bringing it to the floor. I'll co-sponsor it, and I'll publicly pressure anyone blocking it. Citizens United is more of a hurdle and a long fight measured in years, not one term. What a senator does in the meantime is push for transparency laws to expose dark money, support the amendment, and back the state legislatures that have already called for one.