Sen. Cory Gardner’s partisan job is to get senators elected next year to retain or build the narrow Senate majority. The Republican from Yuma got no harbor or favor from his predecessor in the 4th Congressional District, Rep. Ken Buck, last Thursday.

Rep. Ken Buck of Windsor hammered the Senate in floor speech in which he lauded the House for the legislation it’s passed and panned the Senate as tone deaf for its ability to pass meaningful conservative bills, or bipartisan ones for that matter.

The former Weld County district attorney and author of the book “Drain the Swamp” told the Senate to “hear the people.”

“The House of Representatives heard them,” Buck said. “We’ve been busy developing and passing legislation that meaningfully improves the lives of Americans. I commend the speaker and his leadership in moving these bills through the House.

“Unfortunately, much of the House’s important work has stalled in the U.S. Senate. It’s time the Senate pass important legislation and restore trust in our republic.”

Buck said the House had sent the Senate 308 bills that have mired in the upper chamber – “more than any of the previous four presidential administrations had stalled at this same time in their first year.”

He said this House had passed more total bills – 394 so far – than any other in the last four administrations.

Gardner was picked last year to lead the National Republican Senatorial Campaign. Buck was elected to the House in 2014 at the same time Gardner, a House member, was defeating incumbent Mark Udall to become a senator.

“In 2016, the American people commissioned us with a task,” Buck said on the floor. “They asked us to fight for jobs. They asked us to fix healthcare. They asked us to roll back regulations. They asked us to secure the free world. They asked us to secure our own borders.”

“… The dreams of this great Republic cannot be realized by the House alone. The Senate must hear the people and come together around the often bi-partisan measures we’ve been sending to them.”