Secretary of State John Kerry praised the U.S. Senate in his farewell speech on the Senate floor Wednesday, arguing that despite recent gridlock, the Senate can run smoothly again.
“I do not believe the Senate is broken, certainly not as an institution,” Kerry said. “There’s nothing wrong with the senate that can’t be fixed by what’s right about the Senate.”
It’s not the Senate rules that are making it difficult, Kerry argued, “it’s the choices people make about those rules.”