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THE HILL – Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is not unlike Russian President Vladimir Putin and has only himself to blame as GOP leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) holds up Senate action in protest of Democrats’ power grab, a top Republican said Thursday.
Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) said Reid’s refusal to allow Republican amendments and last year’s vote to weaken the filibuster has brought Congress to a halt. As a result, tax and immigration reform are likely dead for the year, the senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations and Banking panels told reporters during a wide-ranging breakfast conversation hosted by The Christian Science Monitor.
“Understand McConnell’s position,” Corker said. “If you allow people just to run roughshod over you — just like we’re seeing right now with Putin in Russia, right, where he’s getting no pushback from the United States … — if you don’t have any pushback, then obviously people [will continue taking advantage of you].”
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