McConnell has declined to commit to action on GOP-supported bills that prove risky, like the annual Senate budget resolution, legislation to curb Trump's ability to impose tariffs, and a measure that would make minor changes to the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
"The single biggest thing we need to do and cannot do without each other is the spending caps," McConnell told reporters this past week when asked what's on the legislative agenda for the rest of the 116th Congress.
"Everybody loves infrastructure in the abstract. The real issue is how you're going to pay for it. The only thing I would rule out is we're not doing another $900 billion stimulus, which remember was done in the first year of the Obama administration," McConnell said, referring to the 2009 stimulus package that funded an array of "Shovel-ready" infrastructure projects to boost the economy after the 2008 financial collapse.
McConnell attacked Democrats when they controlled the Senate in 2014, criticizing them for what he called a lack of legislative accomplishments.
"Leader McConnell has turned the Senate into a legislative graveyard for priorities the American people care about. The greatest challenges we face - health care, income inequality, voting rights, gun safety, the environment, paycheck fairness - McConnell and the Republicans refuse to take any action," Senate Democratic Leader told reporters as Congress prepared to take a two-week recess after its first 100 days in session.
"The House has passed a whole lot of bills on these issues. Will McConnell put them on the floor? No, they don't have to put those bills on the floor. Let them put any bill on the floor on those issues and let's debate them," Schumer said.
After Republicans won the majority in November 2014, McConnell declared: "The Senate in the last few years basically doesn't do anything. We don't even vote."
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/438724-mcconnell-lays-out-agenda-as-house-bills-pile-up
"The single biggest thing we need to do and cannot do without each other is the spending caps," McConnell told reporters this past week when asked what's on the legislative agenda for the rest of the 116th Congress.
"Everybody loves infrastructure in the abstract. The real issue is how you're going to pay for it. The only thing I would rule out is we're not doing another $900 billion stimulus, which remember was done in the first year of the Obama administration," McConnell said, referring to the 2009 stimulus package that funded an array of "Shovel-ready" infrastructure projects to boost the economy after the 2008 financial collapse.
McConnell attacked Democrats when they controlled the Senate in 2014, criticizing them for what he called a lack of legislative accomplishments.
"Leader McConnell has turned the Senate into a legislative graveyard for priorities the American people care about. The greatest challenges we face - health care, income inequality, voting rights, gun safety, the environment, paycheck fairness - McConnell and the Republicans refuse to take any action," Senate Democratic Leader told reporters as Congress prepared to take a two-week recess after its first 100 days in session.
"The House has passed a whole lot of bills on these issues. Will McConnell put them on the floor? No, they don't have to put those bills on the floor. Let them put any bill on the floor on those issues and let's debate them," Schumer said.
After Republicans won the majority in November 2014, McConnell declared: "The Senate in the last few years basically doesn't do anything. We don't even vote."
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/438724-mcconnell-lays-out-agenda-as-house-bills-pile-up
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