Trump drains the swamp.
Senate GOP faces retirement brain drain
Senate Republicans are facing a brain drain as some of the caucus’s biggest dealmakers prepare to head for the exits.
Sen.
Roy Blunt’s (R-Mo.) announcement this week that he will not run for reelection is the latest blow for the GOP’s governing wing of the Senate, a coalition of policy wonks and bipartisan-minded institutionalists who have been at the center of the biggest legislative accomplishments.
Though the membership of Congress is always in flux — a third of the Senate is up every two years and the full House every two — the turnover amongst some of the most successful GOP negotiators is particularly acute.
“There’s a lot of experience, a lot of knowledge leaving. ... It's a loss of a lot of institutional memory,” said Sen.
John Cornyn (R-Texas), an adviser to Senate Minority Leader
Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.).
Senate Republicans are facing a brain drain as some of the caucus’s biggest dealmakers prepare to head for the exits. Sen. Roy Blunt’s (R-Mo.) announcement this week that he will not run for r…
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