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12 Jul 2018, 10:15 am
Why it matters: Mitch McConnell, who stalled Merrick Garland’s nomination to replace Antonin Scalia because it was close to a presidential election, has promised that Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings and vote will take place before November. [read post]
8 Mar 2012, 8:19 am
Because Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has refused to allow yes-or-no votes on judicial nominees. [read post]
28 Sep 2018, 2:02 pm
Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell will ultimately be the one to decide to delay the vote. [read post]
8 Nov 2011, 8:25 pm
In a letter to Congress this summer, Attorney General Holder wrote: The Defense Department “spends approximately $150 million per year on detention operations at Guantánamo, currently at a rate of more than $800,000 per detainee,” Attorney General Eric Holder and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and other Cabinet members wrote Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell and others. [read post]
10 May 2018, 3:13 pm
The bottom line: Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell have already set a breakneck pace for judicial confirmations. [read post]
16 Jun 2015, 5:46 am
Among the likely highlights are a keynote address by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and a panel/debate on whether federal laws should enjoy a presumption of constitutionality. [read post]
23 Jul 2011, 9:31 am
Clearly, he wants to use this as leverage to frighten the GOP into passing the plan proposed by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, which will push the debt ceiling problem into 2013, but it’s still an entirely new and astonishingly reckless gambit.” Related: Prof. [read post]
3 Aug 2012, 2:48 pm
Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) invoked the “Thurmond Rule,” a myth that votes on appeals courts nominees should halt in the months before a presidential election. [read post]
11 Mar 2007, 12:06 pm
Forget querying the why the Dem leadership would have to do that, forget the fact that Mitch McConnell will filibuster Miller's "great Compromise bill" - Bush has said he will veto it. [read post]
1 Jun 2012, 4:04 am
.), Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Minority Whip Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) argue “there is no reason we cannot quickly and in a bipartisan manner enact fiscally responsible legislation” and lay out two potential compromises. [read post]
10 Apr 2019, 8:38 am
The Democrats' "Save the Internet Act" doesn't even seem likely to reach Trump, as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) declared it "dead on arrival. [read post]
2 Oct 2018, 2:45 pm
Days later three women from the same group harassed Senate Leader Mitch McConnell at the Reagan Airport, and Senator Bob Corker at the same airport Monday. [read post]
30 Jul 2020, 7:15 pm
The Senate's top Republican, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, flatly told a Kentucky news station the election would not be moving. [read post]
24 Jan 2019, 3:45 pm
Hugh Hewitt writes in the WaPo that current Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is on the verge of dumping that rule the same way that Sen. [read post]
12 Dec 2023, 1:27 pm
Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), Sen. [read post]
16 May 2012, 7:23 am
Senators signed and delivered a letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) urging an open debate on the Senate Farm Bill. [read post]
6 Jun 2019, 8:48 am
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said the bill would most likely not receive a vote in the Senate. [read post]
12 Aug 2016, 8:08 am
This group has an even number of Republicans and Democrats, it includes Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell and House of Representatives Speaker Rep. [read post]
21 Jan 2019, 7:12 pm
The same Mitch McConnell who blocked the Senate’s exercise of its authority to advise and consent to the Supreme Court nomination of Merrick Garland, could attempt to prevent the trial of a House impeachment of Donald Trump. [read post]
13 Sep 2010, 12:15 pm
TPM: An Associated Press story made waves this morning, by claiming that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell had received a pledge from every member of his caucus to block tax legislation unless it extends all of the Bush tax cuts, even for the richest Americans. [read post]
