After the death of Antonin Scalia, McConnell and other Senate Republicans have held to the stance that the next president should nominate a replacement Supreme Court justice.
Conservative Groups Call on Mitch McConnell, Paul Ryan to Not Hold a Lame-Duck Session
By Heritage Foundation Leah Jessen——Bio and Archives--April 19, 2016
A group of 75 conservative leaders want Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., to promise that Congress will not hold a lame-duck session after the November elections.
“At a time when the American people’s trust in their government is near an all-time low, the Republican-led Congress should demonstrate exemplary behavior by completing its work before the November elections so that voters can judge all the legislators on the basis of the votes they have cast,” conservative leaders wrote Thursday in a letter to McConnell and Ryan.
Sent from the Conservative Action Project, the letter includes signatures from CEOs affiliated with organizations representing economic, social, and national security elements of the conservative movement. The leaders were not speaking for their organizations.
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