Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) ripped Democrats on Monday over talk of nixing the legislative filibuster if they win back the majority even as they’ve used the procedural tactic to block recent GOP legislation.
“This threat to permanently disfigure, to disfigure the Senate, has been the latest growing drumbeat in the modern Democratic Party’s war against our governing institutions,” McConnell said from the Senate floor.
Progressive activists, backed by a growing number of Democratic senators, are calling to use the “nuclear option” to nix the 60-vote legislative filibuster if Democrats win back the Senate majority in November.
Read more at The Hill.
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