Mitch McConnell actually said...

"Well, as I said, what we've been talking about here in the Senate Republican Conference is what we think is the appropriate response to the events over the last few weeks."

"As I said, we are discussing in the Senate Republican Conference what response we think is appropriate to the events of the last two weeks."

"I'm not going to critic -- critique other people's performances. It was certainly something of a performance."

"Democrats were saying, no, the Republicans, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, that he was putting unnecessary voting guidelines in a way to sort of make the Democrats look bad."