from Media Matters

On the July 23 edition of CNN’s The Situation Room, CNN congressional correspondent Dana Bash referred to the “narrative that we’ve heard more and more from the Republicans here, which is that they say the Democratic Congress simply isn’t getting anything done.” Bash then showed a video clip of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) asserting that “the American people are looking at this Congress and saying, ‘Where’s the legislation? What are you going to do to make America better?’ ” But in airing the GOP claim that the Democratic leadership “isn’t getting anything done” — which Bash did not challenge — she ignored the Republicans’ record of blocking legislation proposed by the Democratic majority in the Senate. Indeed, as McClatchy Newspapers reported on July 20: “This year Senate Republicans are threatening filibusters to block more legislation than ever before.”

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