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In his floor comments, Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell also once again defended the filibuster and demanded that Democrats preserve it.
McConnell’s insistence that Democrats commit to keeping the filibuster is holding up the power-sharing agreement between the minority and majority leaders. (The agreement is necessary because the Senate is evenly split, 50-50).
Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell said he had hoped the House would transmit the article of impeachment next Thursday.
“But that’s apparently going to be next Monday,” the Republican leader said on the Senate floor.
