Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) warned of a Senate “nightmare” if Democrats do away with the filibuster.
“The Senate exists to require deliberation and cooperation. James Madison said the Senate’s job was to provide a complicated check ... against improper acts of legislation,” McConnell said on the floor Tuesday. “We ensure that laws earn enough buy-in to receive the lasting consent of the governed. We stop bad ideas, improve good ideas and keep laws from swinging wildly with every election.”
