Washington — Today, as the U.S Senate Committee on the Judiciary continues their hearings on a Supreme Court nominee who shouldn’t even be considered until the next administration, Fix Our Senate released the following statement highlighting how Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s rush to jam this nominee through the Senate and continued refusal to consider COVID-19 response legislation is another clear indication that his Senate is broken and needs to be fixed.
"Sen. McConnell may laugh at concerns about his unwillingness or inability to pass desperately-needed COVID-19 response legislation, but people across the country are sick and tired of his broken Senate and are demanding that it be fixed,” said Eli Zupnick, spokesman for Fix Our Senate. “McConnell’s decision to break his own ‘McConnell rule’ and jam a Supreme Court nominee through the Senate who would take away people’s health care during a pandemic leaves no more doubt that he cannot be allowed to continue creating gridlock and blocking progress next year.”
Fix Our Senate recently held a livestream event with Senators, advocates, and activists and viewed by over 200K people to make the clear call to fix the broken Senate and eliminate the filibuster in 2021.