House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., on Thursday ripped Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell as "the Grim Reaper" because of the Kentucky Republican's constant attacks on Democrats for focusing on impeachment instead of legislation affecting the country.
"We have 275 bills that are bipartisan on Mitch McConnell's desk," Pelosi said after announcing that she had instructed the House Judiciary Committee to draft impeachment articles against President Donald Trump. "The Grim Reaper says all we're doing is impeachment.
"No, we have 275 bipartisan bills on your desk."
McConnell steadily has bashed Democrats for their preoccupation with impeachment, saying minutes after Pelosi ordered impeachment articles to be drafted by the House Judiciary Committee on Thursday that "Democrats obsess over impeachment and obstruct everything else."
Referring to Pelosi's speech, McConnell noted on the Senate floor: "Not one word on the outstanding legislation the American people actually need.
"Nothing on the USMCA, or the NDAA, or funding for our armed forces," he added. "It's all impeachment, all the time."
The USMCA is the proposed trade agreement with Canada and Mexico, while the National Defense Authorization Act would provide $693 billion in defense spending for fiscal 2020.
"Only in this town, only in Washington D.C.," McConnell said, "does anybody think it's okay for our armed forces to go unfunded and a major trade deal to go unpassed, because Democrats are too busy hosting a panel of law professors to criticize President Trump on television."
The majority leader was referring to Wednesday's Judiciary Committee hearing, which featured four law experts testifying on whether constitutional grounds existed for impeaching the president.
Only one of the panelists, George Washington University Law School Professor Jonathan Turley, was called by committee Republicans.
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