Seventy former senators drafted an open letter to current members of the chamber proposing a new bipartisan caucus amid the current era of aggressive partisanship..
These 70 former senators said Congress is “not fulfilling its constitutional duties” with “much of the responsibility” resting on the Senate. They write that the upper chamber is not currently functioning “as the Framers of the Constitution intended” in the letter, which was posted in The Washington Post.
The letter’s writers, who include former Sens. James Buckley (R-N.Y.), Joe Donnelly (D-Ind.), Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.), Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.), John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.), lament what they call the disintegration of legislative authority, saying Congress over the years has given too much power to the executive and judicial branches.
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