EXCERPT:

FEINGOLD: "You bet it does. And Chuck, the other rituals matter, too. I'll tell you, the fact that you are all seated there, that you can’t leave, that you have to be there Monday through Saturday, you can’t go to our office and talk to people, you're not supposed to talk to each other. Then you individually, as Ben just said, take an oath of impartial justice, it creates a solemnity that I can tell you matters and with the Clinton impeachment I think many of us felt that this was by comparison to other situations to be sort of a trivial series of accusations, not offenses against the United States, and yet it was taken seriously. All of these trappings aren’t just ancient traditions. They matter and they remind people that they have taken this oath so I think it’s a package that does matter and the only — there can be funny moments. For example, the pens that they gave us as commemorative pens were actually misprinted. The word 'united' was misspelled, we had to do it over."

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