Senate Republicans can't explain why they keep blocking a resolution calling for the release of the
Senate Republicans can’t explain why they keep blocking a resolution calling for the release of the Mueller report
Their unspoken reasoning: They’re doing it to protect Trump.
By Li Zhouli at Vox
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/4/5/18295598/senate-republicans-resolution-mueller-report
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Thus far, the only reasons Republicans have given for their position on the resolution haven’t been particularly convincing. While McConnell has said that he’s rejected the measure because he wants to give Barr time to coordinate with the special counsel’s office about how to release additional contents of the report, Democrats have argued that the resolution not only does nothing to prevent him from doing that, it also doesn’t set any deadline for him to follow through.
Meanwhile, both Graham and Paul have not been shy about noting that their objections are heavily “political.” Graham had said he was pushing back against the resolution because he wanted more information about the 2016 investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email server. “I’m just making a political point,” he told the Charleston Post and Courier when he shot down the resolution in mid-March. Paul, meanwhile, called for a review of how the Russia investigation began and why law enforcement officials were looking into the Trump campaign in the first place.
It’s a response that completely deflects from the main — and straightforward issue — that the resolution is trying to address. And the diversion hasn’t gone unnoticed.
“I have yet to hear a legitimate policy concern raised by my Republican colleagues who are blocking this bipartisan resolution or trying to bog it down with bizarre partisan amendments,” Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA), the latest Democrat to urge a vote on the resolution on Thursday, told Vox in a statement.
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