McConnell defends remarks on racial history of Senate filibuster
Source: NBC News
A spokesperson for Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell defended the Kentucky Republican's speech on Tuesday in which the lawmaker said the Senate filibuster has no racial history, despite historians noting it was associated with segregationists for over a century.
McConnell argued in a speech early Tuesday on the Senate floor that Democrats are exploiting race in their attempts to overhaul, or outright abolish, the filibuster.
Last week, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., said in an interview with Axios that the legislative filibuster requiring 60 votes in the Senate to end debate on a bill "has deep roots in racism." Sen. Edward Markey, D-Mass., went further and said in a tweet last week it "was created so that slave owners could hold power over our government.” Other Democrats also made similar charges.
“These talking points are an effort to use the terrible history of racism to justify a partisan power grab in the present," McConnell said in his speech. McConnell, noting the times it has been used by Democrats, asked in his speech if it "magically became an offensive relic the instant Democrats came to have a majority?"
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