Ex-Defense Secretary Delivers Scathing Rebuke Of Senate: Vegetating, Not Legislating
02/27/2020 07:02 am ET Updated 2 hours ago
Ex-Defense Secretary Delivers Scathing Rebuke Of Senate: Vegetating, Not Legislating
But you have to ask yourself. Why are you a senator? Why are you there? asked former GOP Sen. William Cohen.
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By Lee Moran
Former Defense Secretary William Cohen on Wednesday issued a blistering critique of the GOP-controlled Senate, scolding its lawmakers for vegetating instead of legislating.
The Republican former senator for Maine, who led the Pentagon under President Bill Clinton, told CNN the Senates failure to curb President Donald Trump was not a new phenomenon, but one that stretched back at least a decade.
Some of it has to do with external pressures, that of social media, talk radio, specific channels that have a particular view and then hammer that view home to the constituents who then pressure the members of Congress, he explained.
But you have to ask yourself. Why are you a senator? Why are you there? Are you acting out of sheer fear that if you speak up and take a position thats controversial youll be punished? Cohen continued. If thats the reason youre in the Senate, to simply be safe and to play it safe, then you really, you really are undercutting what the role of that Senate should be.
Earlier this week, Cohen joined a bipartisan group of 70 former senators with an open letter calling out Congress for not fulfilling its constitutional duties...................................