North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis (R) circulated a “Dear Colleague” letter Tuesday warning that some of the reforms being pushed by Senate conservatives would only weaken the next Senate Republican leader and cause the same chaos that is plaguing the House Republican majority.
Tillis released his letter in response to a list of procedural reforms conservative Senate Steering Committee Chair Mike Lee (R-Utah) unveiled in his own letter last week, which called for giving rank-and-file senators more say in how to run the Senate floor.
Lee is pushing to curtail the next Senate GOP leader’s grip on floor strategy in anticipation of Sen. Mitch McConnell’s (R-Ky.) retirement as Senate GOP leader at the end of this year.