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24 Mar 2020, 10:42 am by Adam Levitin
  It is not tied to maintenance of employment in the McConnell bill. [read post]
20 Sep 2020, 2:17 pm by Tom Smith
Less than two hours after the news of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death — and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s vow to try to replace her with a nominee picked by President Donald Trump — the progressive movement was activated. [read post]
24 Jul 2015, 7:24 pm by Tom Smith
Ted Cruz accused Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of lying, and said he was no better than his Democratic predecessor and couldn't be trusted. [read post]
14 Mar 2024, 7:52 am by Dan Farber
  LCV score of 7%, just below Mitch McConnell’s lifetime score of 9% s third of Susan Collins’s score. [read post]
14 Feb 2016, 7:38 am
"Mitch McConnell Voted To Confirm A Supreme Court Justice In Reagan's Final Year; So did every single Republican senator": Jennifer Bendery of The Huffington Post has this report. [read post]
5 Apr 2018, 6:45 pm by Howard Bashman
“Why Mitch McConnell is bragging about holding up Merrick Garland from the Supreme Court, two years later”: Amber Phillips has this entry at “The Fix” blog of The Washington Post. [read post]
12 Oct 2021, 6:53 am by Tom Smith
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell demanded AG Garland clarify his memo that told the FBI and other DOJ departments to investigate parents protesting critical race theory. [read post]
27 Jul 2019, 6:07 am
... for a column by Dana Milbank that begins:Mitch McConnell is a Russian asset. [read post]
30 Dec 2021, 6:44 pm by Howard Bashman
Mitch McConnell’s un-conservative plea to the Supreme Court”: Columnist Ruth Marcus has this essay online at The Washington Post. [read post]
13 Dec 2017, 6:27 am by Tom Smith
“I’m not sure that Mitch is presented with anything different than having a 52-vote margin, a 51-vote margin might actually be easier to manage than a 52 vote,” Burr said in an interview when asked if McConnell would be appealing to incoming Democratic Alabama Sen. [read post]
23 Feb 2016, 6:21 pm by Tom Smith
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told a group of staunch House conservatives there isn't "a snowball's chance in hell" that he will back down from his opposition to confirming a Supreme Court justice before a new president is elected. [read post]
13 Jul 2011, 8:59 am by Jonah Gelbach
So after all the noise about the moral imperative of cutting the deficit, yesterday the Republican leader in the Senate, Mitch McConnell, proposed a new plan for what you might call a "dirty clean debt limit bill". [read post]
18 Dec 2013, 10:09 am by Tom Smith
 After speaking so strongly about the importance of the sequester cuts during the defund fight, one would have expected McConnell to use his magnificent power to stop this deal in its tracks. [read post]
15 Jun 2012, 12:16 pm by Todd Ruger
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Friday that the U.S. [read post]
19 Aug 2022, 12:51 pm by Ned Foley
As a follow-up to yesterday’s post about Henry Olsen’s column on the potential effects of Alaska’s new electoral system (and how it can help non-MAGA Republicans like Lisa Murkowski), there’s new reporting on how dissatisfied Senator Mitch McConnell is with… Continue reading [read post]
12 Oct 2017, 3:20 am by Scott Bomboy
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]
2 Dec 2014, 7:50 pm
"Senate Republicans to Look at Requiring 60 Votes, McConnell Says": Bloomberg News has a report that begins, "Senate Republicans next week will consider returning to a 60-vote threshold for advancing most presidential nominees when they take the majority in January, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said today. [read post]
15 May 2015, 1:00 pm by Cody Poplin
Likely you’ve heard: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) last night introduced a bill that would reauthorize portions of the Patriot Act set to expire on June 1 for two months, giving lawmakers extra time to consider whether to approve the USA Freedom Act, a clean re-authorization of the Patriot Act’s provisions, or some other formulation. [read post]