I feel if you just stopped someone in the street who was not that into all of our nuances here and said, can you believe that America is standing with countries like Sudan, Somalia, and Iran where 187 countries have already ratified this, they would be horrified.
Boxer emphasizes the embarrassment of the U.S. not ratifying CEDAW compared to other countries.
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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.
Frankly, anyone who runs on that as an issue should be defeated, overwhelmingly by everybody.
Good on Gavin Newsom for being the bigger person to show up and say, Mr. President, I'm glad you're here.
The way the Senate works, as you know, it`s a supermajority to get anything done. It has nothing to do with age.
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