Sasse Breaks His Silence with Plan to Save U.S. Senate

A year after he was elected, Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE) will speak this week on the Senate floor for the first time, Molly Ball reports.

“But once he starts speaking, Sasse doesn’t plan to stop. He has concocted an audacious plan to get his fellow senators’ attention—one he hopes could rescue the moribund upper house from its current torpor. Sasse says he has approached the Senate like a company in need of a culture change.”

Said Sasse: “You always have to walk this fine line between learning a place—by being humble and asking questions and having empathy for real humans laboring in broken institutions—and resolve, that you’re going to still steel yourself to not let human empathy cloud the fact that a broken institution is a broken institution.”