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12 Oct 2017, 3:20 am
Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell might allow some Trump judicial nominations to move forward despite objections from home state Senators using an obscure traditional blocking tactic. [read post]
11 Oct 2017, 2:05 pm
"Mitch McConnell Is Keeping The Senate Rule That Lets Dems Block Trump's Judges; The GOP leader may not personally be a fan of blue slips, but he's not getting rid of them, says his spokesman": Jennifer Bendery of HuffPost has this report. [read post]
11 Oct 2017, 6:50 am
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has taken a lot of heat from conservatives for moving too slowly and ineptly on the Trump agenda, and for being a stodgy, Establishment figure.I always thought this criticism unfair and to an extent uninformed. [read post]
10 Oct 2017, 1:25 pm
I would let them stand on their own and compete against coal and natural gas and other sources," Pruitt told the audience, with senator Mitch McConnell at his side. [read post]
9 Oct 2017, 2:36 pm
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., didn't issue a statement on it. [read post]
2 Oct 2017, 9:52 am
Consequently, Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) decided against holding a full Senate vote on the bill. [read post]
29 Sep 2017, 9:28 am
While Sotomayor was in Washington, Gorsuch was in the Bluegrass State with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. [read post]
29 Sep 2017, 7:46 am
If the past eight months have proved anything, it is that all the 24/7 news coverage of Donald Trump’s antics, all the millions of words devoted to Paul Ryan’s and Mitch McConnell’s plans, have been a complete waste of space and time. [read post]
27 Sep 2017, 5:09 pm
Mitch McConnell (R-KY) (R) looks on during a press event on tax reform September 27, 2017 at the Capitol in Washington, DC. [read post]
27 Sep 2017, 5:59 am
It marked yet another humiliation for the Washington-based Republican establishment, particularly Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), whose allies pumped millions of dollars into the race to prop up Strange and reassure his colleagues that they could survive the Trump era.Moore’s win, however, also demonstrates the real political limitations of Trump, who endorsed “Big Luther” at McConnell’s urging and staged a rally for Strange in… [read post]
26 Sep 2017, 8:22 pm
I'm on record as saying that Mitch McConnell was behaving quite rationally as an opposition leader, but that the Constitution should be blamed for giving him so much power. [read post]
23 Sep 2017, 4:24 pm
.), far left, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), far right, speaks to reporters at the Capitol in Washington on Sept. 19. [read post]
12 Sep 2017, 5:21 am
For Failure To Respond To FOIA RequestNichole LaFond, Talking Points Memo, Sept. 11, 2017he liberal watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) filed a lawsuit against the Department of the Treasury on Monday for failing to respond to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request the group filed last month.CREW filed a FOIA request with the Treasury Department on Aug. 23 requesting documents related to the Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and his wife Louise… [read post]
7 Sep 2017, 3:42 pm
Recently, Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell proposed that Congress suspend the debt ceiling for 18 months, past the 2018 elections. [read post]
6 Sep 2017, 9:01 pm
The president of your party has spent the summer attacking you and removing the last iota of deniability about the racism and xenophobia that animate his presidency (and much of your party). [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]
5 Sep 2017, 10:28 am
The ball is now squarely in the courts of Speaker (Paul) Ryan and Senate Majority Leader (Mitch) McConnell. [read post]
3 Sep 2017, 7:00 am
Last month, we began a new polling project to measure the public’s confidence in government on national security matters on an ongoing, consistent basis. [read post]
29 Aug 2017, 7:31 am
A week after Donald Trump was elected in November 2016, I predicted—using Stephen Skowronek’s model of cycles of regime politics—that Trump would turn out to be a disjunctive president. [read post]
28 Aug 2017, 5:36 am
Last Tuesday, the New York Times published a foggy story noting that Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell “has mused about whether Mr. [read post]
