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Mitch McConnell employs Harry Reid’s hardball tactic
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Jul 31, 2015 08:43pm |
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| Category | Strategy |
| Author | Manu Raju |
| News Date | Thursday, July 30, 2015 10:15:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Before he took over as majority leader, Mitch McConnell was a harsh critic of Harry Reid’s use of a parliamentary tactic to block amendments on the Senate floor. The Kentucky Republican said it was an abuse of the chamber’s rules that stifled debate in the famously deliberative body.
But in his first seven months as Senate majority leader, McConnell has employed that same tactic to push through a highway bill, trade legislation and a bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security. McConnell has used the maneuver more often than past Senate majority leaders — Robert Byrd, George Mitchell and Tom Daschle, all Democrats — and he’s done it just about as much as Reid did during a similar time period in the Nevada Democrat’s reign. |
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