Democrats are facing a daunting stretch as the party struggles to get beyond internal battles to win approval of President Biden’s agenda and deal with other crises that have effectively been punted to the Christmas season.
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“He is yielding to the pressure of the hard left to turn the Senate into a speedway, as opposed to a place where things are paused and thought over,” McConnell said during an interview with Fox News’s Harris Faulkner.
The GOP leader s comments were in response to a 2017 clip of Schumer defending the need for 60 votes to advance most legislation, without which the chamber would become “like a majoritarian institution like the House, much more subject to the winds of short-term electoral change.” Republicans at the time were in the majority.
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“Schumer had it right” in 2017, McConnell said Wednesday.