West Virginia moderate Senator Joe Manchin called the shooting in Texas ‘horrific’ but defended the filibuster as ‘the only thing that prevents us from total insanity’
Conservative Democrat Senator Joe Manchin stood by his opposition to getting rid of the filibuster on Tuesday night, hours after a gunman slaughtered at least 21 people at an elementary school in Texas
The centrist West Virginian’s opinion on the Senate maneuver has garnered new attention in the wake of the shooting at…