Tag Archives: Sen. Mitch McConnell

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell experienced a concerning moment during a weekly Republican leadership news conference on Wednesday afternoon. As he was giving his opening remarks about an annual defense policy bill, he suddenly stopped speaking and appeared to freeze. For a disconcerting 19 seconds, McConnell remained silent. His fellow …

After Fox News‘ Tucker Carlson falsely dismissed the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol by supporters of former President Donald Trump as mostly nonviolent, numerous Republican senators including Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday blasted the right-wing opinion host’s “whitewashing” of the deadly insurrection. Carlson—who publicly promoted former …

Jennifer Shutt, Georgia Recorder Senate Republicans overwhelmingly re-elected Mitch McConnell on Wednesday as their leader for the next Congress, though nearly a dozen members backed Florida Sen. Rick Scott’s attempt to usurp McConnell. Scott’s bid, which he launched Tuesday during an hours-long discussion among Senate Republicans about the future of …

Right-wing Democratic Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona went beyond her usual defense of the filibuster on Monday to argue in favor of reinstating the Senate’s supermajority requirement for all judicial and executive branch confirmations, drawing the ire of progressives who have long criticized the upper chamber’s anti-democratic rules. “Not only …

Five years after Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell aggressively pushed a $1.9 trillion tax cut package that disproportionately benefited corporations and the wealthiest Americans, progressives on Wednesday were uninterested in his complaints about President Joe Biden’s cancellation of some student debt for working Americans. “You should sit this one out,” …

by Ariana Figueroa, Iowa Capital Dispatch June 14, 2022 U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday he is comfortable with the bipartisan deal Senate Democrats and Republicans struck on gun control legislation, signaling that he will join in passing a bill when it comes to a vote. “For myself, …

The suspect in the killing of a retired judge in Wisconsin remained hospitalized in critical condition Monday as investigators continued to unravel what happened in the hours leading up to the Friday morning fatal shooting. A spokesperson said the Wisconsin Department of Justice (DOJ) had no new update on the …

by Jennifer Shutt, Missouri Independent May 9, 2022 WASHINGTON — Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell isn’t ruling out bringing a nationwide abortion ban up for a vote, should the U.S. Supreme Court end the constitutional right to terminate a pregnancy and his party regains the chamber in the November elections. …

by Jennifer Shutt, Missouri Independent March 3, 2022 WASHINGTON — U.S. Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson began the arduous Senate confirmation process last week, meeting on Capitol Hill with four key senators. Jackson, who would become the first Black woman on the court if confirmed, started her morning with …

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Thursday that the upper chamber reached an agreement to lift the debt limit, averting the risk of a government default. “We have reached an agreement to extend the debt ceiling through early December, and it’s our hope that we can get this done as …

Republicans are finally urging Americans to get vaccinated as the COVID-19 infection rates go up across the United States. “These shots need to get in everybody’s arm as rapidly as possible, or we’re going to be back in a situation in the fall that we don’t yearn for, that we …

Senate Democrats are aiming to pass federal legislation for voting rights. The Senate Rules and Administration Committee held a hearing at Atlanta’s National Center for Civil and Human Rights on Monday to keep focus on the issue. “Congress must take action on voting rights, and we have no time to …