The McConnell-aligned super PAC Senate Leadership Fund has announced $67M in ad buys in six states — Arizona, Kentucky, Colorado, Iowa, Maine and North Carolina — to prop up some of his biggest allies in the Senate and his own reelection campaign.
Just when you thought Mitch McConnell’s Republican Majority couldn’t sink any lower, it does.
Afraid of conservative firebrands, McConnell is obstructing an up-or-down vote.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell made a mockery of the millions of Americans looking to Congress for leadership in the face of a global pandemic.
While experts warned of the rising risk of pandemic diseases, one of the most powerful politicians in the country, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, made America less prepared to combat it.
Under Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, the U.S. Senate has voted repeatedly to eliminate vital funding to prevent epidemic diseases from spreading, as well as public health programs that keep Americans safe.
A poll commissioned by Fix Our Senate and conducted by Global Strategy Group found that 43% of registered voters in West Virginia see the filibuster as a way to create more gridlock.
Unless Democrats take steps to reform or eliminate the filibuster, McConnell can use this obstructionist weapon to block the For the People Act
President Biden’s legislative ambitions face a crucial test in the narrowly divided Congress this month, with key Democratic senators signaling they want to pump the brakes.
Once obscure, the Senate filibuster is coming under fresh scrutiny not only because of the enormous power it gives a single senator to halt President Joe Biden’s agenda, but as a tool historically used for racism.
Gun control groups are joining the progressive fight to end the filibuster as the Senate voting rule threatens their goal of passing comprehensive gun reform.
"Historian of the 20th century South here. I dispute Mitch's statement. The filibuster has a ton of 'racial history.'"
This brief will explore the racist history of the filibuster, how it came to be used as it is today, and outline this history specifically through the lens of gun violence prevention, cataloging legislation that has been impeded by the use of the filibuster, obstructing progress toward safer communities and fewer needless tragedies.
The filibuster is a procedural tool of the Senate that delays or prevents a piece of legislation from being brought to a vote. It is a vestige of a deal made to appeal to segregationists and has historically been used to block passage of civil rights legislation.
