In an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper following the vote, Gladys Sicknick described the meetings she did have as “tense”: “I don’t understand it. They are elected for us, the people, and they don’t care about that,” she added. “They care about money, I guess, their pocketbooks. So they’ll be in front of the cameras when they feel like it. They just don’t care, and it’s not right.”