On the floor Wednesday Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) called a Republican display against inaction in the upper chamber “a remarkable show of hubris or arrogance.”
“What
they have done is the very definition of chutzpah,” Reid said. “What
nerve, they’re complaining about the very thing they’ve created ...
blocking one bill after another.”
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and nearly every GOP senator took turns criticizing President Obama and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) during the first hour of morning business Thursday.
More than 30 Republican senators called on Democratic colleagues to work on major pending issues rather than talking about the upcoming election.
“I understand there’s an election going on in a few months. But I’d like to remind my colleagues on the other side that we’ve also got a job to do around here,” McConnell said on the floor Thursday. “I mean, we’ve got multiple crisis-level issues to deal with. And yet Democrats don’t want to do a thing.”
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