Joe Biden has long been a defender of tradition in the Senate, where he served more than four decades, including eight years as chairman of the Judiciary committee. During that time, Biden routinely joined Democratic efforts to sustain filibusters of programs and nominations put forth by Republican Presidents George W. Bush and Ronald Reagan. He spoke out repeatedly about the virtues of the Senate as a “cooling saucer” for democracy, due in large part to its long-standing supermajority requirement. “I say to my friends on the Republican side, you may own the field right now, but you won’t own it forever,” he warned. “And I pray God when the Democrats take back control we don’t make the kind of naked power grab you are doing.”

Source: Huffington Post March 11, 2019 17:03 UTC