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22 May 2014, 1:44 pm by Sandy Levinson
  E.g., do any of you looking forward to McConnell's becoming Senate Majority Leader really and truly believe that that will make much of a difference, given Obama's retention of the veto power? [read post]
31 Oct 2012, 7:56 am by Rick Hasen
But Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and Steven Law, his trusted former aide, remain a powerful combined force in Washington. [read post]
5 Apr 2020, 4:26 am by SHG
On Senate floor Mitch McConnell rips a federal holiday for Election Day as part of a “power grab” by Democrats to win elections. [read post]
31 Jul 2017, 10:25 am by Alan S. Kaplinsky and Mark J. Levin
A group of 19 state attorneys general and the District of Columbia attorney general have sent a letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer expressing the AGs’ “strong opposition” to S.J. [read post]
13 Feb 2016, 4:38 pm by Lyle Denniston
  The Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, immediately made clear that the Senate GOP leadership will resist any nominee to succeed Justice Scalia. [read post]
28 Nov 2017, 5:03 am by SHG
Now, suddenly, Mitch McConnell is saying, “I believe the women. [read post]
25 Jul 2012, 1:14 pm by LindaMBeale
After threatening to filibuster the Obama tax cut proposal, Mitch CcConnell pulled back. [read post]
1 May 2012, 1:01 pm by Lyle Denniston
Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, and by the U.S. [read post]
5 Aug 2020, 3:14 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
., and Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, urged Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Minority Leader Chuck Schumer to include language in the next COVID-19 relief bill that would provide a “clear mandate” that agencies and federal contractors continue to offer maximum telework to all eligible employees. [read post]
28 May 2015, 11:37 am
The Senate’s inability to agree on a way forward is a good sign that Section 215 of the Patriot Act will expire on June 1—but at the behest of Senate Majority Leader and NSA defender Mitch McConnell, the Senate will meet again on May 31 for further votes. [read post]
20 Jun 2019, 4:21 am by SHG
When asked about the hearings to be held on H.R. 40 in the House of Representatives, Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell offered his facile response, “telling reporters he does not favor reparations ‘for something that happened 150 years ago, for whom none of us currently living are responsible.'” Reparations. [read post]
11 Dec 2020, 1:30 pm by Josh Blackman
  Thus, I argued, the Democrats could (but probably will not) employ a Republican-style breaking of norms by having Vice President Kamala Harris refuse to recognize Mitch McConnell as the person who actually dictates the business of the Senate, including most importantly the determination of which items of business receive floor votes. [read post]
23 Jan 2009, 10:04 am
Courtesy of the Senate's website.This afternoon, Republican Senator Mitch McConnell told a National Press Club luncheon that the Ledbetter legislation was just a "trial lawyer's bail out bill. [read post]
19 Apr 2022, 8:46 am by Jack Bogdanski
Moscow Mitch eats their lunch every single day.Something to think about as you fly the Covid-y skies over our troubled land. [read post]
30 Nov 2010, 3:42 am by JB
To be sure, in today's Washington Post, John Boehner and Mitch McConnell state that they are ready and even eager to work with the Democrats. [read post]
16 Jan 2020, 5:00 am by Bob Bauer
On Dec. 17 and Dec. 19, 2019, and Jan. 8 of this year, speaking from the Senate floor, Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell made the case that the Trump impeachment was setting a “toxic” and “nightmarish” precedent “deeply damaging to the institutions of American government. [read post]
13 Apr 2010, 4:28 am by Russ Bensing
  Everybody already smells blood in the water as President Obama mulls over a replacement pick, and the urging from this quarter is that the matter be resolved through trial by combat:  give, say, potential nominee Elena Kagan and Republican Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell their choice of weapons, put them in a cage, and see who comes out alive. [read post]