A billboard on I-65 in Horse Cave, KY. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley)
Term Limits, anyone?
How about a functioning Congress, instead?
Specifically, I mean to refer to the GOP-majority-led Senate under Majority Leader “Moscow” Mitch McConnell of Kentucky.
Addison Mitchell McConnell has been in the Senate since 1984 – 36 years.
In his early years in the Senate, he was more pragmatic, but as the years wore on, he became increasingly intransigent, and in the last year (since April 2019) took great delight in calling himself “The Grim Reaper” of House-passed bills, meaning that he would refuse to allow any bills from the House to come to the floor of the Senate for debate.
And with over 400 bills from the House sitting on his desk, he has done precisely that.
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