Senator Jones blames political, cultural pressures for difficulties of public service

Alabama Senator Doug Jones says in final floor speech to the Senate that to be sure was more difficult being a senator than in the 1960s and 1970s, increasingly vitriolic political culture fueled by the 24 hour news cycle and endless pressure to raise money, the proliferation of lobbyists and demanding organized interests were all known, but the country needed a Senate of many women brought wisdom, judgment, experience and independence to their work, to remember is the went about their business to keep and preserve the reverence of founders and vision for the body is former Majority Leader Mike Mansfield said that the constitutional authority did not lie with leadership but with Senators individually and collectively, the Senate itself is one of the Faust foundations of the Constitution, one of the rocks of the Republic, which also remember.