Sen. James Lankford said his fellow senators seem to have forgotten about how “grunt work” is how things happen in Washington politics.

The Oklahoma Republican appeared on NewsNation’s “The Hill Sunday,” and said many senators are more apt to post something on a social media account than do the real work of being a legislator. “That’s just grunt work. That’s just going to one member at a time and actually working out, saying this needs to be law, not just discussed.”

Lankford said there’s nothing glamorous about being a legislator. It takes time, planning, and effort. “That means committees have got to do their work. And when a bill passes out of committee, that means the Republican and the Democrat that were in committee that formed it have got to do their work to then get 60 co-sponsors.”

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