House Speaker Pelosi slams Senate Majority Leader McConnell for blocking bills aimed at preventing gun violence and foreign election interference.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday slammed"Moscow Mitch" — a derisive nickname for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell — for blocking bills aimed at preventing gun violence and foreign election interference.
McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, has been sharply criticized in recent weeks after he blocked two election security bills that Democrats put forward after former special counsel Robert Mueller's congressional testimony on Russian election interference. Critics of McConnell have been using the nickname"Moscow Mitch" to suggest that he is giving cover to Russian President Vladimir Putin. McConnell has expressed anger about the nickname, comparing the attacks to"modern-day McCarthyism."the Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2019
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