McConnell: Government shutdown before election ‘politically beyond stupid’
S enate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) is warning colleagues that it would be “politically beyond stupid” for ...
Congress returns to Washington as GOP prepares to take control
Returning lawmakers will be choosing the leaders for the next Congress and finishing work on the remaining priorities of the ...
Trump looms large as Congress faces shutdown threat and ‘dizzying’ to-do list
Donald Trump won’t arrive back in the White House until January. But he’ll have fingerprints over every piece of the lame ...
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McConnell’s Next Move
it sounds like McConnell is going to stick this out for a while. The Democrats have, naturally, gotten incredibly sympathetic press given that they forced a shutdown of the government, and there ...
US Senate Democrats rush to confirm judges before Trump takes office
The U.S. Senate's Democratic majority began a crusade on Tuesday to confirm as many new federal judges nominated by President ...
Congress returns to unfinished business and a new Trump era
WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress returns to a changed Washington as President-elect Donald Trump’s hard-right agenda is quickly ...
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McConnell pushed back against the idea of a government shutdown to derail Biden's vaccine mandate, as threats by the GOP's right test his power
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell was cautiously optimistic about the prospects of averting a government shutdown by some Republican senators seeking to defund President Joe Biden's vaccine ...
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Shut down the threat of foolish shutdown
Both Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker John Boehner oppose a repeat of the kamikaze tactics that led to the 2013 shutdown ... would save the government money.
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How Mitch McConnell crushed the tea party
Mitch McConnell walks into ... It's an attack mailer from McConnell's re-election campaign, dressed up to look like an official government notice and sent to thousands of GOP primary voters ...
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Sen. Ted Cruz rages at Mitch McConnell over lack of spending on his Texas reelection bid: ‘Not a penny’
Ted Cruz (R-Texas) bashed the Senate Minority Leader and expressed frustration over the lack of support he has received from the Mitch ... McConnell opposed. Ultimately, that led to a government ...