The Senate is not following the citizens on Immigration. They won't do anything about ANWR. And ten years from now there still will be no new drilling or refineries.
They are not supposed to. They exist as a body that stops public will exactly as the founding fathers had forseen. That is why they were given 6 year terms with only 1/3 up for election at any one time. They are the guarantors that things move slowly.
This has served us well for 200 years because while the Senate was slow, they were at least patriotic.
It is not serving us now, because the dems have decided that the way back to power is for America to fail and that means obstructing the republicans for the sake of obstruction. They have become the anti american party.