Sen Mitch McConnell responds to the CJ (Courier Journal) editorial:
"Of the 62 votes on cloture motions this year, half were votes where Republicans and Democrats joined together to move a bill forward. Four were party-line votes where Democrats voted to "block action on the bills." Four were unanimous, bipartisan votes. And two, from earlier this month, were Democrat filibusters of vital national security legislation: the Terrorist Surveillance Program and the McConnell-Stevens bill to fund U.S. troops in the field...." Courier Journal
from Senator McConnell:
"I also took action when liberals in Washington tried to use an energy bill to raise the price of gasoline and utility rates here in Kentucky. And when the Democrat majority in Congress tried to create a permanent, multi-billion-dollar tax hike in exchange for a one-year delay in the middle-class tax increase known as the AMT, Republicans said "no."" from Team Mitch Blog
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