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3 Dec 2020, 7:46 am by Kevin Kaufman
This week, both Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and a bipartisan group of lawmakers released new proposals for additional pandemic-related relief. [read post]
30 Nov 2020, 10:28 am by Bryce Klehm
On Nov. 17, Acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller announced a drawdown of U.S. troops in Afghanistan and Iraq. [read post]
25 Nov 2020, 7:39 am by Douglas A. Berman
I recommend the article in full, and here are some excerpts: In a video presenting his closing argument for maintaining Republican dominance of the Senate, the majority leader, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, chose three issues — tax cuts, judicial appointments and criminal justice reform. [read post]
24 Nov 2020, 5:30 pm by Howard Bashman
“Republicans Are Souring on Trump’s Antics; Mitch McConnell should join colleagues urging the president to accept his loss”: In Wednesday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal, columnist William A. [read post]
24 Nov 2020, 7:00 am by David Cole
With the support of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and the Federalist Society, Trump has appointed more than three hundred new federal judges. [read post]
23 Nov 2020, 9:03 pm by Brinna Ludwig
That outcome would oust Senator Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) from his current position as majority leader. [read post]
23 Nov 2020, 8:03 am by Steve Gottlieb
If I were Biden, by the way, given Mitch McConnell’s intransigence, I’d follow president Truman’s example, run against the “do-nothing” Senate, and in these days of continuous campaigns, I’d start now. [read post]
20 Nov 2020, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
Even though the Senate majority for the 117th Congress hinges on two runoff elections in Georgia, Democrats and their outside allies said they would still push for the measure, spotlighting Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s resistance. [read post]
18 Nov 2020, 9:06 am by Tom Smith
Republicans from Mitch McConnell down are telling Trump he has the opportunity to leave the Republican Party in a stronger position in Washington than any GOP president since Ronald Reagan. [read post]
13 Nov 2020, 7:48 am by Sam Turco
Unless both Georgia senate runoff races are won by the Democratic Party candidates, it appears that the United States Senate will still be ruled by the Republicans and Mitch McConnell. [read post]
12 Nov 2020, 5:20 am by Marty Lederman
  As Mitch McConnell put it, Congress had “accomplished something really remarkable . . . . [read post]
11 Nov 2020, 10:59 am by Benjamin Wittes
As Bill Kristol asks in an article in the Bulwark: [W]hat do we make of Mitch McConnell refusing to acknowledge the election results today? [read post]
11 Nov 2020, 8:25 am by Tom Smith
“I think we ought to quit all the hand-wringing, not act like this is extraordinary,” said Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Kentucky Republican. [read post]
11 Nov 2020, 6:25 am
But Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo each noted on Tuesday that the election results don't become official until electors cast their votes next month.... [read post]
10 Nov 2020, 9:34 am by Tom Smith
WASHINGTON — Mitch McConnell was unanimously re-elected Senate majority leader on Tuesday, continuing his reign as one of the most powerful figures in Washington. [read post]
10 Nov 2020, 9:02 am by Tom Smith
President Trump should not be expected to “cheerfully, immediately” accept the outcome of the contested 2020 race and is “100 percent within his rights” to challenge the results, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said in a speech from the Senate floor on Monday. [read post]
10 Nov 2020, 7:19 am by John Jascob
But Biden’s centrist campaign strategy, once it is translated into administration policy, may still encounter political headwinds that will be influenced by multiple factors: (1) the composition of the Senate, which is likely to remain undecided until a dual run-off election in Georgia in January; (2) the exact size of the Democratic majority in the House, also still unclear; and (3) the prospect of legal challenges to future Biden Administration regulations in federal courts that President… [read post]