Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Monday announced that he is ready to move forward on a power-sharing agreement with Senate Democrats after securing assurances that they will not vote to remove the legislative filibuster. “Today, two Democratic Senators confirmed that they will not end the legislative filibuster. They agree with President Biden’s and my view that no Senate majority should destroy the right of future minorities of both parties to help shape legislation,” McConnell said in a statement. “The legislative filibuster was a key part of the foundation beneath the Senate’s last 50-50 power-sharing agreement in 2001, I look forward to moving ahead with a power-sharing agreement modeled on that precedent.” Shortly prior to McConnell’s statement, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) told Rachel Maddow that “that are ways to deal” with McConnell if he insists on the organizing resolution, which sought to protect the filibuster. “We’ve told …