'Leader McConnell has turned the Senate into a legislative graveyard for priorities the American people care about,” Senate Democratic Leader Charles Schumer said.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, shown at the Capitol on April 9, says Majority Leader Mitch McConnell"has turned the Senate into a legislative graveyard." One modifies pay for podiatrists working for the Department of Veterans Affairs. Another renames a vets center in North Ogden, Utah. A third revises the charter of the National Future Farmers of America Organization.
"Leader McConnell has turned the Senate into a legislative graveyard for priorities the American people care about,” Senate Democratic Leader Charles E. Schumer said.“I think that’s pretty accurate, yeah,” he told The Times. “They've been busy here in the first part of the Congress sending us things that have — shall I say — no potential in the Senate. And I understand that there's a new majority. They want to lay out, you know, how they feel about things.
Democrats flush with a new House majority after nearly a decade in the minority are sending over a rash of bills most political watchers believe have little chance of passing the Senate, such as universal background checks for gun purchases, net neutrality, climate change, congressional ethics, expanding voter access, raising the minimum wage and more.
She noted that both chambers were essentially at a standstill in January during the longest government shutdown in U.S. history. Of the more than 4,000 bills filed before Congress left for a two-week spring recess, the House has passed 188. The Senate has passed about 100, including many Republican priorities that the House won’t likely take up.at the southern border. In total, just 12 bill have passed both chambers and been signed into law.for years, and pay for federal workers not paid while the government was shut down in December and January.
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