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MCCONNELL has consistently defended the legislative filibuster in both the majority and the minority.
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MCCONNELL (2019): “America needs the Senate to be the Senate. … In this country, radical changes face a high bar by design. It is telling that today’s left-wing activists would rather lower that bar than produce ideas that can meet it.” https://nyti.ms/363U01Y
MCCONNELL (2019): “I recognize it may seem odd that a Senate Majority Leader opposes a proposal to increase his own power…. But my Republican colleagues and I have not and will not vandalize this core tradition for short-term gain." https://nyti.ms/363U01Y
MCCONNELL (2018): "I don’t think the filibuster … is a problem. And it does … generate on many occasions … a bipartisan solution. We do have some big differences about a number of things, but there are a lot of things we do together." https://politi.co/39W0Vvc
MCCONNELL (2017): Eliminating the legislative filibuster "would fundamentally change the way the Senate has worked for a very long time. We’re not going to do that.”
MCCONNELL (2012): "The Senate has functioned for quite a number of decades without a simple majority threshold for everything we do. It has a good effect because it brings people together. To do anything in the Senate, you have to have some bipartisan buy-in."
MCCONNELL (2011): Eliminating the filibuster "would unalterably change the Senate itself. It will no longer be the place where the whole country is heard and has the ability to have its say, a place that encourages consensus and broad agreement.”
