Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich on Wednesday released a video blasting Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and “his do-nothing Republicans” for refusing to take up bills passed by the House.
Reich, who served in former President Bill Clinton’s Cabinet, says in the video that “the Republican-controlled Senate has refused to take up nearly 400 bills passed by the Democratically-controlled House of Representatives.”
He goes on to list “just some of the bills lying in McConnell’s legislative graveyard,” including the “For the People Act,” which passed in March, 2019, the “Bipartisan Background Checks Act,” which passed in February, 2019, and the “Raise the Wage Act,” which was passed in July, 2019.
“Mitch McConnell and his gang of do-nothing Republican senators have also blocked legislation on climate change, the Dream Act, net neutrality, protections for the LGBTQIA community, tribal sovereignty, AND election security — the list goes on and on,” Reich adds.
“They do all this without even a debate,” he continues. “Remember how you learned in school that one house passes legislation and the other considers it? McConnell is throwing those civics lessons out the window.”
The former secretary concludes, “America used to have a Senate that served the people. But under Mitch McConnell’s leadership, what was once the world’s greatest deliberative body has become a partisan circus. He and his Republican colleagues have done nothing to benefit the American people, ignoring the voices of their constituents to serve the will of Donald Trump and Republican fat cats. History will not be kind to them. Hopefully, come November, American voters won’t either.”
Theodore Bunker ✉
Theodore Bunker, a Newsmax writer, has more than a decade covering news, media, and politics.
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