Wait, Harry Reid has a heart?
. . . Reid also yesterday parried long-running GOP complaints that minority-driven filibusters of Senate legislation, such as a bipartisan energy efficiency bill that fell earlier this month, are on the rise in response to his aggressive use of parliamentary procedure to limit amendments.
“They’ve broken our hearts — my heart,” Reid told reporters of the GOP, citing the energy efficiency bill’s demise. Committee chairmen are “as strong as they ever were, if we could get things on the floor.”
Reid pointed to the Energy and Natural Resources Committee as a victim of obstructionism, charging that “one senator has held up hundreds of bills out of that committee alone.” Spokesmen for both Democrats and Republicans on that panel did not return requests to elaborate on Reid’s remarks by publication time.