Barbara Boxer: “We have 61,300 structurally deficient bridges in the U.S., and 50 percent of our roads are in less than good condition.”

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.

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.