Letter to the editor: Our senators’ priorities on the Chiefs and impeachment

Learn from Chiefs

The events of the past several weeks have been tumultuous. Unfortunately, our area U.S. Sens. Roy Blunt, Josh Hawley, Jerry Moran and Pat Roberts failed to show any courage at the impeachment trial by refusing to support calling witnesses and voting for President Donald Trump’s acquittal.

Not only that, they seemed to be obsequiously groveling to Trump. Rather than submitting questions about the actions of the president, they went along with their fellow Republicans by bringing up former Vice President Joe Biden, his son Hunter and Burisma, the Ukrainian gas company whose board Hunter served on.

Then they introduced a resolution to recognize the Chiefs’ Super Bowl victory. Do our senators have nothing better to do than pass vanity resolutions? Why won’t they do the people’s work and address legislation currently residing in Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s legislative graveyard?

There is bipartisan support for many of these bills the House has passed, such as universal background checks for gun buyers, net neutrality and reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act. Many address challenges our citizens face every day: raising the minimum wage, ensuring equal pay, protecting and expanding health coverage and bringing down prescription drug prices.

We are all proud of the Chiefs. Part of that pride comes from their role as good neighbors and citizens. Our senators might take a lesson from them.

- Theodore Prince, Leawood