IN FAREWELL SPEECH, UDALL SAYS SENATE HAS BECOME ‘GRAVEYARD FOR PROGRESS:’

Senator Tom Udall urged his colleagues on Tuesday to kill the legislative filibuster that he said had helped turn the Senate into a “graveyard for progress,” using his farewell speech to point up a state of dysfunction in Congress that had become painfully obvious to most everyone listening to him.

“I’m not the first to say this in a farewell address, and I won’t be the last, but the Senate is broken,” Mr. Udall, Democrat of New Mexico, said on Tuesday in what is likely his final speech after 12 years in the deeply divided institution.

“The Senate is broken,” he repeated for emphasis.

For months, Americans have watched in anger as Congress remained mired in partisan paralysis over more pandemic relief, allowing unemployment benefits to lapse as many suffer from joblessness. Fewer people approve of the job lawmakers are doing in Washington than at almost any time in recent history. And the government watchdog group Common Cause ranked the current Congress the “least productive in history,” noting that only about 1 percent of bills introduced became law.

Cocaine Mitch plays for keeps. Hopefully the upcoming Georgia Senate elections will allow him to continue to do so.

Incidentally, CTL-F “Pelosi” brings up zero finds in the above New York Times article, whose headline, as Steve Milloy of JunkScience.com notes, spells “Communism” wrong.