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| Wanted to make sure you knew about this news. | ||
| Here is the Courier Journal that says Senator Mitch McConnell, former GOP Powerhouse, won't seek re-election. | ||
| And here's a portion of his announcement from the Senate floor yesterday. | ||
| And yet so often I've watched colleagues depart venting their frustration at the confines of the institution or mourning what they perceive to be decline of its norms. | ||
| Regardless, regardless of the political storms that may wash over this chamber during the time I have remaining, I assure our colleagues that I will depart with great hope for the endurance, the endurance of the Senate as an institution. | ||
| There are any number of reasons for pessimism, but the strength of the Senate is not one of them. | ||
| This chamber is still the haven where the political minority can require debate. | ||
| It's still the crucible in which jurists are tested for their fidelity to upholding the Constitution and lives and laws as they were written. | ||
| The Senate is still equipped for work of great consequence. | ||
| And to the disappointment of my critics, I'm still here on the job. | ||
| I yield the board. | ||
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Mr. President. | |
| Senator North Carolina. | ||
| Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the members and staff and spectators in the gallery be allowed to applaud for a period not to exceed 30 seconds. | ||
| And to the calls now, Mike in Racine, Wisconsin, Republican line. | ||
| Go ahead, Mike. | ||
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Good morning. | |
| Morning. | ||
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I kept hearing from the Democrats after the election about how they need to do a better job of messaging. | |
| Well, all through the campaign, we were ostracized and called garbage, Nazis, fascists. | ||
| And it's not just the messaging, it's the messengers because guys like me that live in rural Wisconsin, how can we relate to somebody who's screaming and shrieking like Ayana Presley or Chuck Schumer or any of the Democrats that just are going on and on? | ||
| They need a total reboot on their policies. | ||
| And I just want to say thank you for taking my call. | ||
| Goodbye. | ||
| And here is Jason in Williston Park, New York, Independent. | ||
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Yes. | |
| Hi. | ||
| Thank you for taking my call. | ||
| I think that, as the previous caller mentioned, you know, we got 50% of the country feeling the same way about each other. | ||
| And I'm an independent. | ||
| I've always been an independent, but I skew to the left. | ||
| I'm on the coast. | ||
| And I think what we've got is a failure to communicate, as they say, and going both ways. | ||
| And I think that, you know, I have a conscience and it makes me feel a certain way. | ||
| I grew up in a Judeo-Christian household. | ||
| And I think that I know what's right. | ||
| And then the other 50% of the country thinks that they know what's right. | ||
| And I think we've come to a conclusion here that I think that really what it comes down to is fear. | ||
| And I think that everybody feels that if somebody gets ahead, that means somebody has to lose something. | ||
| Somebody's not going to get something. | ||
| And I think that we're in a situation where white heterosexual males really are feeling threatened. | ||
| And that's really what it comes down to, is that people feel that in order for somebody that doesn't look like me, somebody that doesn't feel the same ways, somebody that feels that the America that our parents felt that they were going to get, and truthfully, that never really existed, that is going to change. | ||
| And it's the fear of change, fear that we're not going to get something that we thought we should have gotten, fear that we're not going to see the people that look like us living next door to us, that we're going to lose something. | ||
| But you know what? | ||
| The American dream isn't a finite thing, in my mind, in my humble opinion. | ||
| And everybody can get what they want and not lose what they think they're going to get. | ||
| And it's that fear that's driving everybody right now. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Jason, and this is Rita, also in New York, line for Democrats. | ||
| Is it Napanak? | ||
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Rita? | |
| You there, Rita? | ||
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And we're leaving this here. |