Barbara Boxer: “I welcome your candid views as to where we are in regard to your ability to attract and retain the very best.”

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.

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