Senator McConnell on Filibusters
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Mitch McConnell observed on Fox News Sunday that Senate Democrats "don't want to work this out." He called the potential rule change, "The Byrd Option," after rule changes that then-Majority Leader Robert Byrd (D-West Virginia) accomplished in the 1970s. McConnell didn't "want to get too technical here" regarding how the Byrd Option would be implemented. Essentially, McConnell said, the GOP wants to "get us back to the precedents that were established prior to the last Congress." He is "confident we have the 51 votes to do that."
ADDED NOTE: The Senate will be back in session on April 4. On April 6, there will be a program at American University titled "Supreme Court Nominations: Prospects & Consequences for the Court and the Nation" (further info is at How Appealing).
SECOND ADDED NOTE: The full transcript from Fox News Sunday is here.
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