Is this what the Senate looks like without Harry Reid in charge?
The new Republican-led Senate has already voted on more amendments in just one week than the Democratic-controlled Senate voted on in all of 2014.
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“We’ve actually reached a milestone here that I think is noteworthy for the Senate. We just cast our 15th roll-call vote on an amendment on this bill, which is more votes — more roll-call votes on amendments than the entire United States Senate [did] in all of 2014,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Thursday night as they surpassed the admittedly low bar set by the previous Senate.
McConnell’s announcement was met by cheers from his Republican colleagues.
But it didn’t go over so well on the other side of the aisle.
Sen. Harry Reid, who was the majority leader during the Senate’s weak run last year, tried to defend the chamber’s record, according to The Hill.
“The success of a Congress is not determined on how many amendments people vote on. The success of this Congress will be determined on what happens to the middle class,” he said.
He said if you look at it that way, the Republicans were still to blame because “the middle class has been hurt, hurt, hurt.”
You have to admire his commitment to the PR spin, but sometimes the numbers just don’t lie.
