Pelosi’s Bipartisanship Boast

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and others have been pushing back at Republican complaints of a “do-nothing Congress” by claiming the Democratic-controlled House has passed “more than 275 bipartisan bills” that are being blocked in the Republican-controlled Senate. But that list includes bills with as few as one Republican vote.

A day after the House approved a bill that would provide legal status to farm workers in the U.S. illegally, Pelosi boasted that the House had passed “[o]ver 275 bipartisan bills” and criticized Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell for not taking them up. She referred to McConnell as “the Grim Reaper.”

: Over 275 bipartisan bills are sitting on the desk of the Grim Reaper while he says, ‘All you’re doing is impeachment.’ No, it’s not all we’re doing. We’ve sent you bills that have not only bipartisanship in the House, but also in the country.