Van Hollen and Booker showing how representatives in government should be working for their constituents. I hope their aim is to be as annoying as possible until something good comes of it, but I worry Bukele will just arrest them and further erode the numbers we have in Congress.

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        He’s a US senator, the right thing for him to do would be to draft and pass laws to prevent this, form voting coalitions, you know the job we pay him for. Flying to el Salvador to take a picture with a prisoner after a Maryland congressman just did the same thing?

        They are milking this for political points and allowing it to happen.

        This is so far from the right thing to do, this is just trying to grasp at some headlines to make you think we’re not already to far gone.

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      Nothing lol he has no power over anything in El Salvador, he can talk to the president but I’m pretty sure the President has prior comittments in this matter. This is a photo op. Like the filibuster, they’re continuing to virtue signal to voters instead of leading and legislating. This does nothign to convince a handful of republicans to join them in reigning in trumps power. Pure optics. No strategy. I’ve seen headless chickens act more decisively.