James N. Stewart: “Sick and dying, they brought themselves down here to speak--to no one. It is shameful.”

Senate is where accountability goes to die. These people don`t care. I`m used to all of it. But I am not used to the cruelty.

I`m used to the lies. I`m used to the hypocrisy. I`m used to the cowardice.

I`m not sure I have ever seen a situation where people who have already given so much had to fight so hard to get so little. And I hope we learn a lesson.

Life is hard enough on our people, with all of the misfortunes, with the sicknesses, illnesses, injuries, and accidents, that the government should not be compounding the misfortunes of life with the injustice of denying people the…