Sen. Tuberville demonstrates the Senate is AWOL

The U.S. Senate was once “the world’s greatest deliberative body.” Now, it is mostly Absent Without Leave.

Yesterday, Senator Tommy Tuberville’s effort to uphold the law banning federal funding of abortions that evolved into a fight over the Senate performing its constitutional role in evaluating senior military officers’ fitness for promotion came to a now all-too-familiar end: Senators on both sides of the aisle declined to do their jobs.

Ditto with respect to the twelve annual appropriations bills. Not one has been passed by the Senate.

Senators have even declined to insist on advising and consenting to a treaty that would surrender our sovereignty over health policy to the World Health Organization.

Senator Tuberville has been slandered for jeopardizing national security. What is really putting it at risk is a Senate that not only fails to deliberate, but is actually AWOL.

This is Frank Gaffney.