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25 Feb 2009, 10:53 am
"Republican Senator Mitch McConnell, who once bragged about his ability to bring bacon to his home state of Kentucky, says that he worries less about the "content" of the budget than its overall size. [read post]
10 Jul 2013, 7:26 am
” Earlier in the day, with a letter directed to Mitch McConnell (R-Ky) that was signed by some 200 members of Congress, Sanchez, along with Representative Joe Courtney (D-Conn), called on the Senate Republican Leader to stop threatening to block a Senate vote on the full package of NLRB nominees. [read post]
29 Jun 2021, 4:43 am
But it’s one thing to say that Supreme Court nominating opportunities that arise in the normal course of a justice’s life cycle can’t be helped, and another given what Mitch McConnell did to Merrick Garland and says he’ll do again to Biden’s nominee, should Biden get one and McConnell be able to pull it off. [read post]
7 Apr 2017, 9:50 am
On Friday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said President Trump was able to order the missile attack on Syria under the AUMF of 2002. [read post]
23 Jul 2021, 9:52 am
There were indeed 17 circuit court vacancies when Donald Trump was inaugurated, but Mitch McConnell had little to do with most of them. [read post]
25 Jun 2010, 2:58 pm
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who on Sunday would not rule out a filibuster of Kagan, is leading the charge with a new narrative that Kagan is more of a “political operative” than a lawyerly type. [read post]
10 Dec 2021, 9:54 pm
Although Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has made general statements about seeking “parity” for defense spending with the increases on the domestic side – likely boosting the former by trimming the latter – Republicans reportedly have been making little effort to specify what sort of shifts they desire. [read post]
21 Jul 2016, 12:22 pm
As I have written many times before, Mitch McConnell is not a raving ideologue; he was simply behaving "rationally" in his desire to deprive Barack Obama of a second term and believing that the most effective way to do it was to deprive him of any accomplishments. [read post]
13 Jan 2016, 2:35 pm
” The Guardian has more on McConnell’s comments. [read post]
22 Dec 2020, 7:03 am
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky) and Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) exchanged barbs on the Senate floor, McConnell praising the bill as “No sprawling left-wing wish list,” while Schumer called the process in reaching the final bill “so nastily partisan” and also characterizing as “false” McConnell’s accusations about Democrats’ stalling the legislation for months. [read post]
6 Jan 2021, 10:09 am
Senator Mitch McConnell opens strongly defending counting the votes. [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm
The vote was also seen as a rebuke to both gentlemen from Kentucky, Republican Senators Rand Paul and Mitch McConnell. [read post]
13 Jan 2021, 11:32 am
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has said that he will not reconvene the Senate earlier than its return date of Jan. 19 to accept an article of impeachment—meaning that a trial will not proceed prior to President-elect Biden’s inauguration on Jan. 20. [read post]
15 Dec 2020, 12:09 pm
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell acknowledged President-elect Biden’s victory for the first time, reports the Associated Press. [read post]
6 Sep 2017, 6:31 am
Unfortunately, a collection of fools and radicals in the Republican Party are the very culprits who have been trying to use the debt ceiling to hold the economy hostage for the past six years.It would be an act of political courage for Speaker Paul Ryan, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, and President Donald Trump to push for repeal, especially since McConnell in particular was a leading hostage taker in the 2011 debt ceiling crisis. [read post]
21 Jan 2019, 8:10 am
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]
4 Dec 2016, 7:13 am
House Speaker Paul Ryan, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, and their veteran committee chairs now have an unprecedented opportunity to transform the country. [read post]
14 Oct 2016, 8:39 am
In the Senate, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has kept the late Justice Antonin Scalia’s seat open for an astonishing eight months and counting just so that a Republican president—any Republican—might have the opportunity to fill it. [read post]
24 Dec 2010, 7:40 am
That’s why you’re hearing confidence from the likes of Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and deficit hawk Sen. [read post]
29 Jan 2019, 4:08 pm
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) joined Sens. [read post]
