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‘A Scorched Earth Senate’ https://www.nysun.com/editorials/a-scorched-earth-senate/91451/ In respect of the filibuster, Senator Mitch McConnell certainly put the hay down where us mules can get to it. The Republican leader unloaded after a hapless Ben Cardin, senator of Maryland, while talking on Monday with Transportation Secretary Buttigieg, “accidentally” got caught by a hot-mic and, as the New York Post retailed the story, “outed plans to pass an infrastructure bill without Republican votes.” Mr. McConnell responded today with a prediction of the kind rarely heard in the upper chamb...

McConnell Threatens Filibuster Changes Will Lead to "Scorched Earth Senate" As Debate Heats Up By Spectrum News Staff Nationwide UPDATED 8:50 PM ET Mar. 16, 2021 PUBLISHED 3:45 PM ET Mar. 16, 2021 PUBLISHED 3:45 PM EDT Mar. 16, 2021 SHARE The battle over the legislative filibuster, the 60-vote threshold by which debate can be brought to a close in the Senate, is heating up as progressive Democrats call on leadershi...

'Hannity' host says Democrats trying to eliminate the filibuster is the 'ultimate power grab' President Biden said in an interview Tuesday that he is in favor of overhauling the filibuster rules that could help Democrats use their Senate majority to steamroll legislative initiatives without so much as looking at their Republican colleagues. Biden did not call for an elimination of the action ‒ he doesn't have the support in the Senate even if he did ‒ but he sided with lawmakers seen as moderates who want changes to some of the rules. "You have to do what it used to be when I first g...

By Susan Jones | March 17, 2021 | 5:46am EDT Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) (Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images) (CNSNews.com) - As Democrats grow louder with calls to abolish or suspend the filibuster to ram through their leftist agenda, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell says, don't do it – it won’t work. "The discussion continues on the other side about blowing up the Senate, by eliminating the legislative filibuster," McConnell told a news conference following his speech defending the filibuster on the Senate floor. McCon...

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