“What I would also remind everybody and mentioned to our House friends at our joint retreat: How would you like to have to get 261 votes on almost everything you do? I hope that some day we will have a supermajority in the Senate, but for 100 years we haven’t, and there are some obvious limitations.”
— Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), quoted by Politico, telling House GOP colleagues there are limits to what the Senate can do.
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