Fix Our Senate: “Sen. McConnell and his Senate Republican caucus are once again making it crystal clear that this outdated and abused Senate rule needs to go.”
Washington, DC – Today, Fix Our Senate spokesman Eli Zupnick released the following statement on the House vote to keep the government open and extend the debt limit. Minority Leader McConnell and his Republican caucus are currently threatening to use the filibuster to block this bill’s passage in the Senate.
“By threatening to use the filibuster to shut down the government and manufacture an economic crisis for their own partisan benefit, Sen. McConnell and his Senate Republican caucus are once again making it crystal clear that this outdated and abused Senate rule needs to go.
“The filibuster is already a brick wall standing in the way of voting rights, reproductive rights, and so much more – and this latest threat is just one more reason for President Biden and Senate Democrats to move quickly to eliminate it, deliver on their promises, and protect our rights and this fragile economic recovery.”