Your U.S. senator remains committed to a destructive alliance with a Senate Democratic minority. Earlier this year your senator joined 31 Democrats by signing on to a letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY).

In this letter, your senator stated he is "opposing any effort to curtail the existing rights and prerogatives of senators to engage in full, robust, and extended debate as we consider legislation before the body in the future."

This means your Senator is refusing to end the Democrats' use of the 60-vote rule to block legislation. Typically, the Senate requires 60 votes to open and close debate on legislation, and these two procedural votes occur before an actual vote on the bill.

Unless 8 Democrats join the 52 Republican Senate majority to open and close debate on a bill, then it is IMPOSSIBLE for a conservative Republican agenda to advance through the Senate and to the president for approval. This is tyranny of the minority at the hand of 8 Democrats, and not only is your senator refusing to fight this, he is supporting it!

Tell your senator to rescind his support of Democratic obstruction and switch to a majority vote to pass significant conservative legislation.

If your senator refuses to fight this Democratic obstruction, the death of a conservative agenda is certain. If Republicans continue to surrender to Democrats, there will be no repealing Obamacare, funding the border wall, defunding sanctuary cities, passing Kate's Law, defunding Planned Parenthood, and applying the Hyde Amendment to ensure federal tax dollars do not fund abortion.

Your senator's response to you will likely include the argument that Senate Republicans need to keep this rule because they may need to use it if Senate Democrats ever become a majority again. Don't be fooled. The days of honest brokering by Democrats are over. They are not fair. In fact, Senator Harry Reid (D-NV), assuming that Hillary Clinton would become the next president, signaled that Democratic leadership would do away with the 60-vote rule.

Senator Reid said: "The country can't be run this way, where nothing gets done. ... Unless after this election there is a dramatic change to go back to the way it used to be, the Senate will have to evolve as it has in the past. ... But it will evolve with a majority vote determining stuff. It is going to happen." So, Senate Democratic leadership is already on record in support of doing away with the 60-vote rule. In fact, history tells us the Democratic party has been the party to change rules and procedures to advance their agenda. The first change was at the request of Democratic President Woodrow Wilson in 1917 and again in 1975 by a Senate Democratic majority.

Ending this Democratic obstruction is now within the constitutional power and reach of the Senate Republican majority, but your senator and other establishment Republicans would rather allow a minority of 8 Democrats to block conservative legislation. Republicans' refusal to end the Democratic obstruction is nothing more than a mechanism for Democrats and liberal Republicans to further capitulate to the left.

Tell your senator to rescind his support of Democratic obstruction and switch to a majority vote to pass significant conservative legislation.

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