Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., said his own party is to blame as Republicans have mounted a filibuster to reject the effort to begin debate on the massive, bipartisan infrastructure bill – pointing out that Democratic leadership in the Senate were the ones in 2013 to enact the so-called “nuclear option.”
Sen. Warner dismisses inflation fears: ‘Virtually every economist’ agrees infrastructure bill will promote growthSen. Mark Warner, D-Va., said Sunday he regrets that his party opened the door to changing the filibuster, even as he sounded open to changing it further to exempt voting rights legislation from the 60-vote legislative threshold.
"I would wish we wouldn’t even have started this a decade ago. When the Democratic leaders actually changed the rules, I don’t think we would have the Supreme Court we did if we still had a 60-vote margin on the filibuster, but we are where we are," Warren told host Martha McCallum on"Fox News Sunday.
After Democrats mounted a filibuster in 2017 to oppose former President Donald Trump’s first Supreme Court nomination, Neil Gorsuch, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., implemented his own nuclear option, also lowering the threshold for Supreme Court nominees to a simple majority vote. "I don’t want the Senate to become like the House," Warner said Sunday."But I do believe when it comes to voting rights, when it comes to that basic right to exercise and participate in democracy, I get very worried what’s happening in some of these states where they are actually penalizing, saying if you give somebody water waiting in line to vote, or in states like Texas where they’re saying a local government can overcome the results of a local election.
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