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John Kerry: This is one of the saddest days I've seen in almost 28 years in the Senate. It needs to be a wake-up call about a broken…

On the recordDecember 4, 2012
This is one of the saddest days I've seen in almost 28 years in the Senate. It needs to be a wake-up call about a broken institution that's letting down the American people. We need to fix this place.
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John Kerry
Democratic · Massachusetts

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John Kerry reflects on the Senate's failure to ratify the treaty, calling it a sad day and a sign of institutional failure.

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