Why can't the challenge the "statements", lies, actually, made by their fellow colleagues?
Kennedy, for example, is an outright liar that poses a distinct threat to the US military personnel in foreign lands
when he takes to the Senate floor to bloviate.
But not one Senator takes him to task. Maybe the occasional Represenative will offer criticism, but no one in the Senate.
Likewise with Leahy. He lied to Strom Thurmond's face, yet no criticism was forth coming.
It's too much of a club, where anything goes. They certainly aren't upholding their fiduciary duty.
McCain? He's been seduced by the limelight, and really should retire, but if he does, he loses the limelight.
It's about him now, than serving both NM, and as a US Senator, the rest of the country.
I agree but the last I checked McCain was a Senator from Arizona.
I meant they need not launch personal attacks. I just wish they would quit with the
'My good friend from X certainly has a right to express their own view and I respect their right to do so. In fact that's what makes this country so great blah blah blah the right for each of us to have our views...'
By the time you get done listening to a U.S. Senator you have learned nothing except they are in love with all the other Senators.