The work we do is important. Our strength rules and seemingly eccentric practices that slow our proceedings and insist on our cooperation are important. Our founders envisioned the senate as the more deliberative, careful body that operates at a great distance than the other body from the public passions of the hour. We are an important check on the powers of the executive. Our consent is necessary. For the president to appoint jurists and powerful government officials and in many respects to conduct foreign policy. Whether or not we are of the same party, we are not the president s subordinates. We are his equal. That extraordinary speech written about i the president s longtime friend mark salter. Also making an appearance on the hill, Jared Kushner, who took two hours of questions from members of the House Intel Committee and trumps former Campaign Manager Paul Manafort took questions from the staff on the june 16 meeting arranged by don junior to get dirt on Hillary Clinton. Presid
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