The obstruction that finally pushed the Democratic leader to change the Senate’s rules in 2013 was the GOP’s refusal to consider three of President Barack Obama’s DC Circuit Court picks. But his frustration with Republican blockades had been building for months.
“I had no choice,” Reid told Vox in a May interview. “They stuck by their guns opposing everything [Obama] tried to do. And that’s where I found myself.”
It’s a place where current Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer could soon find himself, too.
“It’s not a question of if the filibuster goes away; it’s only a question of when,” said Reid, who retired from his Nevada Senate seat in 2017, adding that he has “every bit of confidence in Chuck Schumer” and that he’s “not about to second guess what Chuck Schumer should do.”
Schumer hit back after a Tuesday Senate hearing on Capitol security
Johnson read from a very interesting eyewitness account by J. Michael Waller who claimed he saw provocateurs at the Capitol riot
Waller claimed not one of the people he saw appeared angry or incited to riot
The statement he read blamed police for firing gas into a crowd
But he also told DailyMail.com he was NOT claiming false flag operation occurred
It came at a hearing where former Capitol Police chief said rioters came prepared for war and armed
Johnson also said he found videos of incident sickening and reprehensible racial slurs repugnant
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