Mark Pryor: “before we close the Senate before the August recess, I just want to speak for 1 minute. We all heard the exchange…”

“before we close the Senate before the August recess, I just want to speak for 1 minute. We all heard the exchange earlier between the chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, Senator Menendez, and Senator Enzi, and Senator Carper also participated, about appointing ambassadors. I think it is a sad day for America when our gridlock, the gridlock that the Congress has created, makes it to where we cannot appoint our ambassadors to go overseas to represent our great Nation and to be our representatives there in these countries, many of which are struggling, and many of which have a lot of tensions either with us, the United States, or their neighbors or other countries in the world. I think our country is suffering because of the gridlock and I must say that the fault rests with all of us. We are elected to be leaders, and we are not showing leadership by not working through these difficult issues and allowing the basics of government, including our ambassadors to be appointed. I must say there is a simple solution to all of this, and it is not something that is found in a new political science textbook, it is not something that some talking head on a TV show has proposed. There is some ancient wisdom that we all should follow, and that is the Golden Rule. We should do unto others as we would have others do unto us. If we would follow that, if all of us would take that to heart and apply that to our business here in the U.S.…”