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7 Nov 2022, 7:45 am by Dan Farber
If Mitch McConnell is Senate majority leader, he’s likely to block most appointments. [read post]
31 Jul 2017, 8:53 am by Thomas Dowdell (US)
  Thursday night Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) released the Health Care Freedom Act, the so-called “skinny repeal” bill, which would have repealed the ACA’s individual and employer mandates, delayed the medical device tax, expanded contributions to Health Savings Accounts, and prohibited funding for Planned Parenthood for one year with increased funding for community health centers. [read post]
9 Jul 2011, 1:32 am by LindaMBeale
We’re talking about Speaker John Boehner, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl. [read post]
13 Jan 2021, 6:17 pm by James Romoser
Vice President Mike Pence, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell all received their first doses on Dec. 18. [read post]
2 Jun 2009, 9:06 am
” Later, she is slated to meet Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY); Senate Judiciary Committee members Patrick Leahy (D-VT); Jeff Sessions (R-AL); John Kyl (R-AZ); Richard Durbin (D-IL); and the senators from her home state, Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillenbrand, both Dems. [read post]
14 Apr 2014, 9:11 am by Art Hinshaw
As I had hoped, he told some great negotiation war stories including some across the aisle with Senators Diane Feinstein and Ted Kennedy and another about how he and Mitch McConnell strategized for a negotiation with President Obama about the end of the Bush tax cuts. [read post]
26 Dec 2010, 1:59 am
Mitch McConnell had come forward with a statement on how everybody has to pay more. [read post]
6 Jul 2011, 7:55 am by Raffaela Wakeman
Senator Mitch McConnell is not letting up in his efforts to relocate two terrorist suspects being held by federal authorities in Kentucky to Guantanamo, as this press release and attached letter to Attorney General Eric Holder confirms. [read post]
4 Sep 2009, 9:36 am
Olson of Washington, arguing for Citizens United, 30 minutes [some of that time will be saved for rebuttal after all others have argued]; Floyd Abrams of New York, arguing for Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, 10 minutes; Solicitor General Kagan, for the FEC, 30 minutes, and Seth P. [read post]
26 Jan 2018, 5:00 am by Gene Takagi
NY Times The federal government shutdown lasted only two full days before a majority of Senate Democrats relented based on a promise from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell that the Senate would consider the status of “dreamers. [read post]
10 Aug 2011, 1:24 pm by WIMS
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) appointed Republican Whip Jon Kyl (R-AZ); Budget, Banking, Commerce and Joint Economic Committee member Pat Toomey (R-PA), and former OMB Director and now Budget Committee Rob Portman (R-OH). [read post]
29 Jun 2011, 8:30 am by Lucas A. Ferrara, Esq.
Bring back the days of unrestrained excess, deception, and de-regulation of Wall Street.One of their strategies is to choke funding to two of the agencies which are critical to the implementation and enforcement of the financial reform law, the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.Last week, Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell stated that "anything we can do to slow down, deter or impede their ability to engage in this… [read post]
4 Jan 2012, 1:10 pm
”Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R, Ky.), said the recess appointment “represents a sharp departure from a long-standing precedent that has limited the President to recess appointments only when the Senate is in a recess of 10 days or longer. [read post]
5 Nov 2010, 11:12 am by Andrew Koppelman
From the standpoint of electoral accountability, it is likely that the voters will reward them precisely for further straining the economy and prolonging the recession.Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell, who has been shrewdly focused on retaking political power from the Democrats, yesterday reaffirmed that his central goal is to ensure that Barack Obama does not get a second term. [read post]
6 Jul 2011, 9:10 am by Michelle Lindo McCluer
  ********************In response to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's recent calls for terrorism suspects arrested on US soil to be tried in military commissions, here is an excellent op-ed from NIMJ friend Mason Clutter of The Constitution Project. [read post]
10 Dec 2013, 4:51 am by Amy Howe
” At NPR, Frank James observes that, with yesterday’s order granting a motion by Senator Mitch McConnell for argument time in NLRB v. [read post]
15 Jul 2010, 11:05 am by RiskMetrics Group
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky noted that the bill would require 533 new rulemaking processes and said the uncertainty surrounding the new rules would slow business growth. [read post]
12 Jul 2011, 7:11 pm by Kevin
Mitch McConnell, Congress would not vote to raise the debt limit. [read post]
25 Oct 2011, 12:02 pm by Rick Hasen
There’s nothing to stop someone like Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell from effectively becoming the fundraising arm of the Republican Party, funneling all the money through his leadership PAC. [read post]
11 Jul 2008, 8:43 am
Documents listed are accessible through subscription to the GalleryWatch.com service.For additional information contact [www.gallerywatch.com] Subscription needed for online access: 07/10/2008 Letter to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy and Ranking Member Arlen Specter From Deputy Attorney General Mark Filip (PDF 165 KB) Letter Discusses the Department of Justice's Principles of Federal Prosecution of Business… [read post]