Thank you, Senator Bennett, for your floor speech.  

Perhaps the saddest thing of all are all the empty seats in the chamber. C-Span is prohibited from panning the room to show who is present. But one can see enough to know that in this important debate, the speakers are talking to an empty chamber. What have we come to, that our elected officials care so little for one another that they do not bother to listen to one another? There is no debate, no clash of ideas, no dialogue at all.  

As Senator Bennett emphasizes regarding a famous quote by Ben Franklin regarding whether the framers were establishing a monarchy or a Republic. “A Republic if you can keep it.”   We, the People, do not seem to be doing a very good job of preserving what our Founders created.