A dirty piece of business from Mitch McConnell.
by a group of Republican senators pushed the business to Friday, though. It wasn’t a bad break for Democrats, allowing them showcase Republicans’ explicitly political opposition to the commission in broad daylight.Six Republicans joined all the Democrats, or at least all the Democrats who bothered to show up on the holiday Friday to vote. Five of them—Sens.
Patty Murray and Kyrsten Sinema, the former of whom had to fly home for a family matter. Nine other Republicans didn’t cast votes.This was a dirty piece of business from Republican leader Mitch McConnell. Although he had previously been open to the idea of a commission, he, like House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, had a change of heart.
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