Barbara Boxer: “Not enough committees are doing, in my opinion, the diligence that should be done, and I am so appreciative of you.”

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

Frankly, anyone who runs on that as an issue should be defeated, overwhelmingly by everybody.

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.

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