out the work of the senate has been reduced to voting to pack the courts with trump appointed lifetime federal judges. mcconnell put 11 nomnags up for a vote, 7 of them are lifetime appointments to the federal bench. one had never tried a case in court, another argued that private companies should be able to offer health care coverage that doesn t cover basic preventative health care for women including contraceptives. in your view, is his whole purpose at this stage just to pack the courts? well, you start out by saying he s been serving for over 30 years and i ve been in the senate a little over 18 months and i know a waste when i see it. and he says he wants to turn the senate into a personnel agency. a personnel agency for the white house, and that s pretty much what we do.