Thursday, February 9, 2017

Senate Republicans did not use Rule 19 when Ted Cruz attacked Mitch McConnell

Senate Democrats attacked their GOP colleagues for using a procedural regulation to shut down Elizabeth Warren’s criticism of a fellow senator, but not when Texas Republican Ted Cruz did the same thing two years ago.

 During a Feb. 8 CNN interview, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., excoriated Republicans for invoking Rule 19 the day before to force Warren to stop her floor speech against Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions, President Donald Trump’s nominee for attorney general....
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/feb/08/jeanne-shaheen/senate-republicans-didnt-use-rule-19-cruz-when-he-/


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