Barbara Boxer: “I am voting present on the nomination of Douglas E. Lute to be Special Assistant to the President and Deputy National…”

It's up to his colleagues to determine if they want such a coward, such a liar, to be their leader, and or maybe even speaker.

Good on Gavin Newsom for being the bigger person to show up and say, Mr. President, I'm glad you're here.

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.