Tea Party Senator Wonders Why We Have A Senate
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Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse thinks we’d be fine with just a House of Representatives.
Sasse (R-NE) said he’s been quietly watching his colleagues work during his first year as a senator, and nearly one year after his election — he wonders whether the U.S. Senate should even exist.
The Tea Party lawmaker said, during his first speech on the Senate floor, that he spends most of his weekends back home in Nebraska, where he has discovered “the people despise us all.”
“Why is this?” Sasse said Tuesday, 364 days after his election. “Because we’re not doing the job we were sent here to do. The Senate isn’t tackling the great national problems that worry those we work for.”
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He slammed his fellow Republican “grandstanders” for using their elected office to promote outside business interests, and he attacked Democrats for doing “this body harm through nuclear tactics.”
“I therefore propose a thought experiment: If the Senate isn’t going to be the most important venue for addressing our biggest national problems, where is that venue?” Sasse wondered aloud. “Where should the people look for the long-term national prioritization? Or, to ask it of ourselves, would anything be lost if the Senate didn’t exist?”
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