One thing about someone like Mitch McConnell is that he is someone that has been around for so long that he knows every dirty trick that someone could pull.
For someone like him, who is now in the minority position in the Senate, it doesn’t mean that it is totally a bad thing. Sure, Schumer can bring anything he wants to the floor now, but you have to remember that for every move there is a counter.
Mitch knows all of these counters and he can use this knowledge that he has to make sure that while Democrats have the majority, they can’t just run the table every single time.
Senate Republicans are set to force Democrats to cast votes on a variety of potentially uncomfortable topics in the coming days, taking advantage of the rules of the budget reconciliation process Democrats are using to advance President Biden’s coronavirus stimulus plan while getting around a filibuster.
Debate on the budget resolution, which started Wednesday, will continue in the Senate on Thursday. After that time expires — Senate Minority Whip John Thune, R-S.D., predicted that will happen shortly after lunch — a process called a vote-a-rama begins.
The article goes on to state the following:
During that time, any senator is entitled to file an amendment to the resolution, which could result in dozens of votes on various provisions going late into the night and even early into Friday morning.
The report explains that Republicans are furious over Democrats’ plan to use the reconciliation process to include many items on their agenda into the coronavirus stimulus bill. Therefore, Republicans will be using the vote-a-rama process to force Democrats to vote on a number of individual issues.
McConnell said, “We’ll be getting senators on the record about whether taxpayers should fund checks for illegal immigrants… whether Democrats should raise taxes on small businesses in the midst of this historic crisis… and whether generous federal funding should pour into school districts where the unions refuse to let schools open. And this is just a small taste.”