Senator McConnell notes Democrats previous support for legislative filibuster

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky says with leaders Tom Daschle and Trent Lott in 2001 wrote an agreement 20 years earlier there was no need to reaffirm all the basic standing rules that govern legislation in the Senate, safely assumed the new majority would break the role for short-term gain, floor remarks specifically citing the filibuster as important and unquestioned part of the backdrop that lay beneath the negotiations in final details, Daschle having praised it is a crucial rule and Joe Biden praising the distinctive feature of the Senate on many occasions.