Outgoing Sen. McCaskill Farewell Address: ‘I’d Be Lying If I Didn’t Say I Was Worried About This Place’

‘It just doesn’t work as well as well as it used to’

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MCCASKILL: “And finally, to all of my fellow senators and all the many people who work here in the Senate; I’d be lying if I didn’t say I was worried about this place. It just doesn’t work as well as well as it used to. The Senate has been so enjoyable for me, but I must admit it puts the fun in dysfunction. Peter Morgan, an author said, 'No family is complete without an embarrassing uncle.' We have too many embarrassing uncles in the United States Senate, lots of embarrassing stuff. The United States Senate is no longer the world’s greatest deliberative body, and everybody needs to quit saying it until we recover from this period of polarization and the fear of the political consequences of tough votes.”

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