But the deal went nowhere thanks to opposition from Senate Republicans, including Mitch McConnell, the majority leader. (sltrib.com)
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) speaks to the press, July 26, 2022, at the Capitol in Washington. (prospect.org)
It also includes Mitch McConnell, whose quest to become majority leader again knows no bounds, but whose Republican candidates must run statewide rather than in exquisitely gerrymandered districts where anti-choice majorities may actually exist. (prospect.org)
As the debate over how the Senate operates intensifies, Mitch McConnell seems unusually rattled. (msnbc.com)
At a news conference with Senate Republicans, Mitch McConnell presented the visual aid of a blank check - paid to the order of 'Democrats' Socialist Agenda' - to reiterate they will not vote to pass stop-gap legislation just approved by the House to continue funding the government and extend the debt ceiling issue. (commondreams.org)
Amidst an ugly if bogus battle over raising the debt limit - which a bipartisan Congress has repeatedly done (thrice for the former guy) but which 'nihilist-in-chief' Mitch McConnell in his unbounded cynicism now balks at - he just held a presser with a giant blank check to repeat his refusal to fund the Democrats' 'Socialist agenda. (commondreams.org)
He eats right and stays healthy, he says, simply 'to outlive Mitch McConnell. (commondreams.org)
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell talks to reporters after the Senate voted to confirm Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh at the U.S. Capitol, Oct. 6, 2018, in Washington, DC. (go.com)
Flake and Coons sought unanimous consent from their Senate colleagues for the measure late Wednesday but that failed after an objection from Republican Leader Mitch McConnell. (go.com)
There's one overwhelming takeaway from the mind-numbing spectacle that was Supreme Court justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh's Senate confirmation hearings: Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky. (theweek.com)
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who already called off the August recess, said the Senate is prepared to start the confirmation process as quickly as possible. (nymag.com)
Following the tortured logic of Mitch McConnell, let's let the American people speak. (nymag.com)
As Congress remains deadlocked over a coronavirus stimulus bill, Senator Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. (msnbc.com)
Get the latest articles, videos, and news about Mitch McConnell on Flipboard. (flipboard.com)
Discover our growing collection of curated stories on Mitch McConnell. (flipboard.com)
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell called freshman Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's "loony lies" a "cancer" on the GOP as House Democrats move to have her removed from her positions on two committees. (nypost.com)
Washington - Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Sunday suggested the cost of an infrastructure package he is willing to accept is between $600 and $800 billion, a price range that is higher than a counterproposal to President Biden's sweeping plan put forth by fellow Senate Republicans. (cbsnews.com)
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell shrugged off a question Tuesday about whether he received special treatment from the Transportation Department because of his marriage to the agency's secretary, Elaine Chao. (politico.com)
Mitch McConnell declined to offer details on what Republicans would do if they recaptured Congress in the midterms. (businessinsider.com)
If Congressional Republicans have any sort of agenda to campaign on ahead of the 2022 midterms, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is keeping mum. (businessinsider.com)
Brian Monahan, who has served as attending physician since 2009, wrote a pair of medical updates this summer on Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell , after McConnell had suffered two mysterious episodes during public remarks since July. (yahoo.com)
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell indicated Tuesday that he'll likely support the bipartisan gun safety plan negotiated by 20 senators, a significant about-face for a politician who has spent decades working tirelessly to fend off even the most milquetoast of gun reforms. (motherjones.com)
NEW: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell says he supports a bipartisan framework on gun safety and will likely vote for legislation that reflects it. (motherjones.com)
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday tore into congressional Democrats who continue to probe President Trump's potential efforts to obstruct special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into the 2016 presidential election, claiming the case is "closed. (yahoo.com)
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and President Trump. (yahoo.com)
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell complained about the nickname "Moscow Mitch" during a radio interview, calling it "modern day McCarthyism. (thedailybeast.com)
A clip of Democratic Senator Kyrsten Sinema talking with Mitch McConnell and Tom Cotton, two Republican rivals, on the Senate floor has gone viral on social media. (newsweek.com)
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell arrives for a news conference on Capitol Hill. (politico.com)
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell warns that businesses need protection against "an epidemic of lawsuits" that will arise as workers and customers sue employers over exposure to Covid-19. (politico.com)
2017-10-24T14:04:19-04:00 https://ximage.c-spanvideo.org/eyJidWNrZXQiOiJwaWN0dXJlcy5jLXNwYW52aWRlby5vcmciLCJrZXkiOiJGaWxlc1wvY2NmXC8yMDE3MTAyNDE0MDYxNTAwMl9oZC5qcGciLCJlZGl0cyI6eyJyZXNpemUiOnsiZml0IjoiY292ZXIiLCJoZWlnaHQiOjUwNn19fQ== Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) talked about what he wants to see in tax reform legislation. (c-span.org)
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) talked about what he wants to see in tax reform legislation. (c-span.org)
Following a luncheon meeting at the White House President Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) spoke to reporters about tax reform and health care legislation. (c-span.org)
But again, Mitch McConnell, he has this problem, and it is that the people Trump endorses are batshit, and also the people who attach themselves like leeches to the cavernous folds of Trump's buttocks are batshit. (wonkette.com)
Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has reportedly changed his mind on Republican chances of retaking control of the Senate in the midterm elections. (breitbart.com)
On Wednesday's edition of former Trump adviser Steve Bannon's podcast "War Room," Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) slammed Senate Majority Mitch McConnell (R-KY) - and outlined how she believes voters in Arizona could end his career. (salon.com)
Mitch McConnell is pulling his support and pulling money from backing Blake Masters for Senate, and he's doing that because Blake Masters is not the type of senator Mitch McConnell wants in Washington. (salon.com)
If they elect Blake Masters and send him to the Senate here in Washington, D.C., they are going to be cutting the head off the snake and defeating Mitch McConnell, the RINO that has controlled the Senate for years now. (salon.com)
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In an interview with Kentucky Educational Television that aired Sunday, McConnell reiterated Republicans' opposition to size and scope of the $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan pitched by Mr. Biden, and said any measure must focus on "traditional" infrastructure - roads, bridges, ports, broadband - in order to gain GOP support. (cbsnews.com)
During a press conference on Wednesday, McConnell declined to offer any details about what Republicans would do in the event they recaptured both chambers of Congress in November. (businessinsider.com)
Trump is of course currently mad at McConnell about the Republicans giving President Joe Biden a win this week with his infrastructure plan. (wonkette.com)
Previously in doubt that Sen. Rick Scott's (R-FL) plan at the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) would yield positive results, McConnell was cautiously optimistic Republicans will gain the majority, the Chamber of Commerce told Axios. (breitbart.com)
McConnell attended a closed-door meeting on Monday at the chamber, where he said Republicans' chances of retaking the Senate have improved. (breitbart.com)
McConnell has previously claimed it was more likely Republicans would retake the House than the Senate. (breitbart.com)
McConnell's attack on Thiel may be a cover for his feud with Scott, who has called out McConnell directly for misaligning his political agenda with the NRSC, accusing him of McConnell's GOP wing of "trash-talking" MAGA Republicans who McConnell allegedly does not favor - like Blake Masters. (breitbart.com)
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Millions of people are just months away from determining the senators who should vote to confirm or reject the president's nominee, and their voices deserve to be heard now as Leader McConnell thought they should deserve to be heard then. (nymag.com)
And so [when] I ... heard what Leader McConnell had said, I happened to think that that has further confused the process. (npr.org)
As a result, a video of Sinema talking with Minority leader McConnell and Cotton swiftly went viral on Twitter , being viewed more than 670,000 times. (newsweek.com)
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi2
McConnell will join other congressional leaders - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy - for a meeting with Mr. Biden at the White House on Wednesday, where they're likely to discuss the president's infrastructure and families plans . (cbsnews.com)
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called McConnell "Moscow Mitch" in August for his inaction on legislation for election security and gun restrictions. (thedailybeast.com)
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McConnell said no sitting senator "can even begin to imagine what a completely scorched-earth Senate would look like. (msnbc.com)
Since McConnell already nuked the filibuster - lowering the threshold for Supreme Court confirmations from 60 votes to a simple majority - to ensure Gorsuch would make it onto the Court, the Democrats' next best option is hoping that Senator Jeff Flake is so passionate about blocking Trump's judicial nominees over a vote on tariffs that he's willing to make an enemy of every conservative in the country. (nymag.com)
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John Yarmuth, the Democratic Kentucky congressman who as a young Republican had traveled with McConnell organizing college campuses for [Marlow Cook's Senate campaign in 1968], says the two are no longer on speaking terms. (motherjones.com)
To be sure, the Republican candidates who must win currently Democratic Senate seats or hold their own if McConnell is to reclaim his sovereign power are a flawed lot quite apart from their anti-choice vulnerabilities. (prospect.org)
For that matter, McConnell already brushed past the fact that the status quo already resembles his imagined scenario: GOP senators forced an 11-hour bill-reading before voting on the latest COVID relief package, and Republican senators spent the Trump era trying to pursue regressive priorities "with zero input" from Democrats. (msnbc.com)
McConnell won the 1892 Republican gubernatorial nomination and was elected governor of Idaho. (nga.org)
Loony lies and conspiracy theories are cancer for the Republican Party and our country," McConnell (R-Ky. (nypost.com)
Beyond McConnell, though, even these extremely modest reforms are already triggering a backlash from Republican Senators, who have begun to voice skepticism about the (non-mandatory) red flag laws that the framework helps fund. (motherjones.com)
While McConnell, the top Senate Republican, wields significant power on Capitol Hill, he can do nothing to stop members of Democratic-controlled House from continuing their oversight. (yahoo.com)
National Republican Senatorial Committee Chair Rick Scott doesn't want to get involved in primaries, which drives McConnell types nuts, but it sounds like McConnell might have to get involved if he wants actual electable people running next year. (wonkette.com)
With less money in the bank after the financial investment, McConnell suggested Scott should use his personal resources to further aid Republican candidates. (breitbart.com)
Of the 89 bills that McConnell cosponsored, 44% were introduced by a legislator who was not a Republican. (govtrack.us)
Greene then argued that Masters, if elected, could be a deciding vote to deny McConnell another term as Republican Leader. (salon.com)
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McConnell said the partisan gridlock of the Trump and Obama eras would look like 'child's play' compared to what's to come. (msnbc.com)
McConnell has downplayed the necessity of the Mueller protection bill, saying the bipartisan legislation is not needed at this time because of assurances he has been given by President Trump that he does not intend to fire Mueller. (go.com)
On Dec. 12, days ahead of the House floor impeachment vote, McConnell told Fox News host Sean Hannity there's no chance Trump would be removed from the presidency in a trial . (npr.org)
Trump has been mad at McConnell ALL YEAR. (wonkette.com)
This morning, Trump is even threatening to primary McConnell. (wonkette.com)
This comes as McConnell has butted heads with Trump on candidate choices in key races around the country, and in particular pulled all support from the far-right Senate candidate in Arizona, venture capitalist Blake Masters. (salon.com)
Democrats6
After 30 years in Washington spent fighting Democrats on nearly every front, McConnell has embraced his persona as the dark lord of Capitol Hill. (motherjones.com)
In other words, the Senate minority leader has a plan: if Democrats allow the chamber to begin passing legislation with majority support, McConnell will make it nearly impossible for the Senate to function at all. (msnbc.com)
The Republican's point wasn't subtle: McConnell wants Democrats to believe it's in their interests to leave the dysfunctional Senate as is. (msnbc.com)
Making up the self-serving rules as he goes like any seasoned hostage-taker, McConnell says finding the votes to do what every Congress has done before is the Dems' problem: 'The debt ceiling will be raised as it always should be, but it will be raised by the Democrats. (commondreams.org)
Axios reported in early December that McConnell simply preferred to hammer Democrats, leaving it up to the 2024 GOP nominee to outline the party's priorities. (businessinsider.com)
McConnell called on Democrats to "stop endlessly litigating a two-year-old election result" and to end to what he called a "Groundhog Day spectacle. (yahoo.com)
America1
This is what we're up against with the hard left today in America," McConnell complained in the interview. (thedailybeast.com)
Coronavirus1
No bill will pass the Senate without liability protection for everyone related to the coronavirus," McConnell told reporters this month. (politico.com)
Trump's1
The Senate stands ready to fulfill its constitutional role by offering advice and consent on President Trump's nominee to fill this vacancy," McConnell said. (nymag.com)
Reporters3
I mean there's been no indication, as you can imagine - I talk to the president fairly often - no indication that the Mueller investigation will not be allowed to finish, and it should be allowed to finish," McConnell told reporters on Wednesday. (go.com)
Both times, McConnell suddenly stopped speaking and stared blankly for several seconds, while he was addressing cameras and reporters. (yahoo.com)
I'm comfortable with the framework, and if the legislation ends up reflecting what the framework indicates, I'll be supportive," McConnell told reporters. (motherjones.com)
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Greene, who was elected in November to represent a northwest Georgia congressional district, immediately shot back at McConnell. (nypost.com)
Democratic lawmakers can't put things as indelicately as the cover of the Daily News , so they opted to demand that McConnell delay the vote until after the midterms, reminding voters that he stole a Supreme Court appointment from President Obama when he refused to give his nominee, Merrick Garland, a hearing. (nymag.com)
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McConnell held a leadership position on 0 committees and 0 subcommittees, as either a chair (majority party) or ranking member (minority party), at the end of the session. (govtrack.us)
Infrastructure3
The unique platform infrastructure of the McConnell BIC is available and accessible to all researchers. (mcgill.ca)
The proper price tag for what most of us think of as infrastructure is about six to 800 billion dollars," McConnell said. (cbsnews.com)
McConnell told Kentucky Educational Television that the president's plan is a "bait-and-switch, call it infrastructure, but much bigger with a whole laundry list of other things. (cbsnews.com)
Majority1
I have informed the Majority Leader that I will not vote to advance any of the 21 judicial nominees pending in the Judiciary Committee, or vote to confirm the 32 judges awaiting a confirmation vote on the floor, until [the bill] is brought to the full Senate for a vote,' Flake announced on the Senate floor after McConnell objected to the measure. (go.com)
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Since McConnell was busy being Senate Minority Leader, the metrics of legislative activity listed below may not apply. (govtrack.us)
Bill1
McConnell introduced 1 bill in 2013 that got past committee and to the floor for consideration. (govtrack.us)
Chamber1
Let me say this very clearly for all 99 of my colleagues: Nobody serving in this chamber can even begin - can even begin to imagine - what a completely scorched-earth Senate would look like,' McConnell said in a Senate speech. (msnbc.com)
Vote2
Despite a mere 21% approval rate at home, he's become the most despotic Senate leader, en route enabling 'the worst excesses of an increasingly deranged movement of cranks, bigots, grifters and plutocrats' while 'reducing the power of the ballot box as much as possible' because c'mon nobody's gonna actually vote for these evil jackasses. (commondreams.org)
His decision to withhold his vote on judicial nominations would draw ire from McConnell, who has previously said confirming judges to federal courts is a top priority. (go.com)
Weak1
McConnell also slammed the impeachment case, calling it "weak" and saying "there will be no difference between the president's position and our position as to how to handle this. (npr.org)
Support1
A McConnell-backed super PAC pulled nearly $8 million in support of Masters. (breitbart.com)
Speech1
This investigation went on for two years," McConnell said in a speech on the Senate floor. (yahoo.com)
Previously1
McConnell argued Manchin, who has previously angered progressives by blocking several bills, had "made a terrible deal. (newsweek.com)
Politics1
After migrating to Oregon, McConnell entered politics in 1882, as a one-term member and president of the Oregon State Senate. (nga.org)
Ireland1
Andrew McConnell was born 1977 and began his career as a press photographer covering the closing stages of the conflict in Northern Ireland and the transition to peace. (worldpressphoto.org)
Main1
McConnell and company are also the main reason we don't have a deal to help Americans survive the economic effects of the pandemic. (sltrib.com)
Office4
What is Liza McConnell, DAC's office address? (healthgrades.com)
After leaving office on January 4, 1897, McConnell was appointed Indian inspector, serving from 1897 to 1901. (nga.org)
We'll be working through this process, hopefully in a fairly short period of time, in total coordination with the White House counsel's office and the people who are representing the president in the well of the Senate," McConnell said. (npr.org)
Monahan's reports also said the Office of Attending Physician cleared McConnell to continue working. (yahoo.com)
Career1
McConnell returned to his career in public service as a member of the 1890 Idaho Constitutional Convention. (nga.org)
View1
view more Carol McConnell has been interested in art all her life. (scribd.com)
Business1
The Eugene Hamilton and Billie Sue McConnell Hurst Business Scholarship is available to students at Southwest Virginia Community College. (fastweb.com)