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read watch and hear. Vanity Fair. What does it feel like on a personal level to be a Democratic senator right now?

Well, I mean, it depends on the day.

There are still days when you feel like you're making important progress and there are other days

when you're sort of like observing a car crash from like many blocks away

and there's a traffic jam that is resulting from the car crash and so there are certainly days and more than ever I would say

even over the last like six or so weeks where we're just kind of well it was the immigration meltdown

in particular where we just sort of stared at each other and said,

I don't even think we have a role here

while they sort their, you know, family dispute out.

But, you know, day by day I still love the work.

It's just increasingly challenging.

Increasingly challenging, yeah.

That's the senior senator from the state of Hawaii, Brian Schatz.

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