Marsha Blackburn Rips 'Broken and Dysfunctional' Senate

Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn, lowered the boom on the GOP-led Senate this week, saying lawmakers are not doing nearly enough for the nation -- and that has to change.

Asked to name the Senate’s most crucial challenge, Blackburn, who seeks retiring Sen. Bob Corker’s seat, told Chloé Morrison of Chattanooga news site nooga.com:

"The lack of productivity from the Senate is one of the greatest challenges we face. They cannot seem to get problem-solving legislation to the President’s desk.

"Tennesseans sent President Donald Trump to Washington to drain the swamp, put strict constitutionalists on the federal bench and Supreme Court, protect our nation’s security, and curb our out of control federal spending, and build the wall -- but in order to do that, he needs working majorities in the House and Senate."

Blackburn ripped the Senate as "broken and dysfunctional" and "in desperate need of change."

"I’m running to remind the Senate that it serves you and you expect them to solve problems, get those solutions to the president’s desk, and have them signed into law," she said.

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