that is getting into nasty public (and personal) food fights with other respected major Dems on the Senate floor .. ?
The guy that appears to think Dems should oppose all legislation .. ?
A dry policy debate over bipartisan policing legislation exploded on Tuesday afternoon into a heated and personal clash among three Democratic senators, offering a rare glimpse of the internal fight in their party over how to take on President Trump.
The spectacle started in the least dramatic way possible: Senator Catherine Cortez Masto, Democrat of Nevada and a former attorney general and federal prosecutor, asked for unanimous consent to pass a package of policing bills, including one to reauthorize support for mental health services for law enforcement officers, and another to make recruits eligible for funding for training programs.
It quickly went off the rails when Senator Cory Booker, the progressive New Jersey Democrat, rose to object, accusing Ms. Cortez Masto of being “complicit” with an authoritarian president.
-snip- Ms. Cortez Masto, in response, gave a competing theory of how to govern as a Democrat when Republicans control a trifecta of power in Washington. What the Trump administration was doing was not acceptable, she said. But that did not mean that Democrats should stand in the way of legislation that all Americans would want them to support.
“Two wrongs don’t make a right,” she said.
Calmly but firmly, Ms. Cortez Masto, who represents a swing state, told Mr. Booker that he should have proposed his change when the measures were considered by the Judiciary Committee and passed by a unanimous voice vote.
“This is an attempt to kill all of these bills — I don’t know why,” she said.
- snip - Things got personal and nasty after Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, a longtime rival to Mr. Booker who also ran for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination and a cosponsor of some of the measures, noted that he failed to attend a key committee meeting where members debated the legislation and voted unanimously to move it to the Senate floor.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/us/politics/cory-booker-democrats-trump-senate.html
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