Second Debate for US Senator Mostly Ignores Foreign Policy

Commentary The second debate for U.S. Senator from California should have been a lot better. Moderators Nikki Laurenzo of FOX40 in Sacramento and Frank Buckley of KTLA in Los Angeles asked almost no foreign policy questions of the four candidates: Democratic Reps. Adam Schiff, Katie Porter, and Barbara Lee, and Republican former Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres star Steve Garvey. Yet foreign policy is the Senate’s main responsibility. Unlike for the U.S. House of Representatives, it is only the Senate that approves or rejects treaties with foreign countries. And only it approves or disapproves the president’s nominees for the cabinet departments of State and Defense; and the heads of the CIA, Army, Navy, Air Force, and numerous other positions....