Barbara Boxer: “I can tell you that the worst thing we can do for our economy and for everything else is to ignore these issues.”

We Democrats, we do have a very good and diverse coalition. It truly is diverse, everywhere you look at it. But in terms of leadership in Congress, it is true, they’re getting older.

This is a sad moment, we always had two parties, one was to the right of center, one was to the left of center, and we never had a party, so extreme and so willing to become the party of grievance and anger and division.

The way the Senate works, as you know, it’s a supermajority to get anything done. It has nothing to do with age.

It is absolutely false to say that FEMA is getting in the way.