Don't these Senators have anyone doing research for them so that they don't ask stupid questions that show them to be uneducated fools?
they do. Their staffers write them up.
The staffers get them from the pressure groups.
That's why they keep hitting abortion(NARAL), CAP (NAACP, Vanguard (Trial Lawyers association) and "the little guy" (public citizen,PFAW, Move-on).
They don't have an original thought.