McConnell Tries To Sway Democrats Against Changing Senate Rules On Filibuster
(World News Russia)

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell published an op-ed in the New York Times on Thursday which defended the use of the legislative filibuster, the 60-vote threshold that many Democratic lawmakers and presidential candidates have discussed abolishing on Thursday, according to The Hill. `The legislative filibuster is directly downstream from our founding tradition. If that tradition frustrates the whims of those on the far left, it is their half-baked proposals and not the centuries-old wisdom that need retooling,` Sen. McConnell (R-KY) wrote. `No Republican has any trouble imagining the laundry list of socialist policies that 51 Senate Democrats would happily inflict on Middle America in a...