leap into the breach

When the event’s scheduled reader did not show, Price was asked to leap into the breach.

"It is not the Senate's job to leap into the breach and search desperately for ways to get to 'guilty,'" McConnell said earlier this year.

“It is not the Senate’s job to leap into the breach and search desperately for ways to get to ‘guilty,’ ” McConnell said.

"It is not the Senate's job to leap into the breach and search desperately for ways to 'get to to guilty,'" McConnell said.

“It is not the Senate’s job to leap into the breach and search desperately for ways to get to guilty,” McConnell said in remarks prepared for deliver on the Senate floor, saying it was the job of the House of Representatives to build a case.