Terri Sewell is angry.

During an interview with the Alabama Politics This Week podcast, the eight-term U.S. Representative from Alabama’s 1st congressional district was uncharacteristically animated and pointed in her comments after eight Senate Democrats voted with Republicans to end a 42-day government shutdown without concessions from Republicans.

Sewell called the deal “empty promises,” said her Senate colleagues “caved” and called Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer a poor leader.

“I am furious at the eight members of the Senate that chose to literally give in,” Sewell said. “I thought that we were showing such a force of unity as a party, and at a time when this country needed us to do that. I know Chuck Schumer voted no this time. His vote wasn’t one of the votes to do it. The c

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