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1 Mar 2009, 6:58 pm
Here are three suggestions: * Where are House Minority Leader John Boehner, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnel and Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele? [read post]
15 Oct 2020, 7:10 am by Searcy Law
Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell vowed to bring Trump’s nominee to a vote, even though he had blocked President Barack Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland just four years earlier because it was an election year. [read post]
14 Dec 2018, 7:06 pm by David M. Boertje
This week, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced he would bring the First Step Act, a bipartisan criminal justice reform bill, to a vote. [read post]
9 Mar 2016, 4:22 am by Amy Howe
  Coverage comes from NPR’s Nina Totenberg, who reports that the president “has begun interviewing candidates” for the vacancy; and Catherine Ho of The Washington Post, who reports that “[s]eventeen major environmental groups are calling on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) to hold prompt confirmation hearings and a vote” on the eventual nominee. [read post]
8 Jan 2017, 9:13 pm by Sandy Levinson
 One possibility is that Mitch McConnell, the Senate Majority Leader, is a man of integrity who actually believes in the importance of safeguarding minority rights. [read post]
23 Dec 2019, 1:49 pm
").In a banner year for judicial confirmations, senators in 2019 signed off on 20 circuit judges and 80 district judges as President Donald Trump clinched his 185th appointment — but in reaching that milestone, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell faced a number of heated battles along the way. [read post]
28 Jul 2022, 4:00 am by Howard Friedman
The bill provides in part:No person acting under color of State law may deny—(1) full faith and credit to any public act, record, or judicial proceeding of any other State pertaining to a marriage between 2 individuals, on the basis of the sex, race, ethnicity, or national origin of those individuals; or(2) a right or claim arising from such a marriage on the basis that such marriage would not be recognized under the law of that State on the basis of the sex, race, ethnicity, or national… [read post]
14 Sep 2018, 4:18 pm by Elie Mystal
Mitch McConnell is too smart to have all his eggs in this rapidly decaying basket. [read post]
15 Feb 2016, 6:01 am
"Said Josh Holmes, Mitch McConnell’s former chief of staff, quoted in a NYT article floating the theory that the GOP plan not to act on an Obama nominee to replace Scalia "could alienate moderate voters and imperil incumbent Republicans in swing states. [read post]
26 Jul 2019, 6:06 am by Joe Patrice
So obviously Mitch McConnell has smothered all legislation aimed at impeding the Russians. [read post]
30 Aug 2023, 10:16 pm by Jack Bogdanski
The Turtle, Mitch McConnell, has done so much to damage our once-great country. [read post]
29 Jun 2016, 6:45 am by Bill
Absolutely your baseline Trump voter will have greater familiarity with these sports titans than with Mitch McConnell or Paul Ryan, and those guys are boring anyway. [read post]
5 Feb 2020, 8:29 am by Margaret Taylor
This episode includes the speeches of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), as well as Sens. [read post]
24 Feb 2016, 8:52 am by WIMS
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chairman Jim Inhofe (R-OK), House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI.) and House Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield (R-KY), 34 Senators and 171 House Members filed an amicus brief today in the case of State of West Virginia, et al. v. [read post]
29 Jul 2019, 3:52 pm by CAFE
Election,” Volume 1, Senate Intelligence Committee, 7/25/19 Preet’s tweet about Trump & Putin’s discussion to form an “impenetrable Cyber Security unit” in 2017, 7/28/19 “Mitch McConnell blocks election security legislation,” CBS News, 7/26/19 “Russians probably targeted election systems in all 50 states, Senate panel’s report says,” Washington Post, 7/25/19 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. [read post]
15 Nov 2017, 5:42 am by Staci Zaretsky
* Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell thinks that the people of Alabama should choose Attorney General Jeff Sessions as a write-in candidate to replace alleged pederast Roy Moore on the ballot for his former seat, but the AG has no desire to return to the Senate. [read post]
29 Aug 2019, 1:00 am by CAFE
" host Preet Bharara answers your questions about: -- President Trump’s reported proposal to “nuke” incoming hurricanes -- Why ethics should be taught in school -- Whether the world needs more lawyers Michael Bennet, senior senator from Colorado and 2020 presidential candidate, joins Preet for a wide-ranging conversation about why Mitch McConnell’s Senate is stuck in a legislative standstill, whether the country is heading into another recession,… [read post]