@cspanofficial: Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) made the case for new leadership in the Senate as he addressed a Democratic conference in Denver on Friday, one day after announcing he would challenge Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) for majority leader. "It's our job, all of our jobs, to show the American people that we heard them and that we're going to act," he said. "And that work? It begins in the United States Senate." Sen. Van Hollen went on to discuss what he called the "trust deficit" in America, the gap between Americans' belief that government can improve their lives and their confidence that it actually will. "They know our government and our democracy can make their lives better," he said, "but they have wholly lost confidence that it will." The Maryland senator argued that the government's central mission should be to deliver results for the American people, "even when that means shaking things up," citing that principle as his reason for running for majority leader. "This country does not belong to the people who can afford to buy influence. It belongs to all of us," he said. "And it's time we governed like that." #chrisvanhollen #democrats #majorityleader #chuckschumer #cspan

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