Senate Minority Whip John Thune, R-S.D., speaks during an interview with The Associated Press at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) MITCHELL, S.D. (AP) — The gold-leafed ceilings and crystal chandeli...
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Thursday announced plans to shift into two key roles in the next Congress as he prepares to hand over the torch as the upper chamber’s top Republican. McConnell, who first announced he was stepping down
There is a battle brewing over who will succeed Sen.Mitch McConnell(R-Ky.) as leader of the Senate Republicans. The fight should be less over personalities and more over how the candidates promise to run the Senate, a broken institution in need of reform. The battle be...
McCarthy has been the House majority leader for four years. He made a bid for speaker in 2015 but stepped aside amid pressure from conservatives. Also on Wednesday, both Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer won the votes to keep their posts next year...
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, made clear he strongly disagrees with McConnell's assertion that the Senate should wait until next year to replace Scalia: The President can and should send the Senate a nominee right away. The Senate has a responsibility to fill vacancies as ...
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell praises support for Ukraine as the Senate is on track to pass $95 billion in war aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., on April 23, 2024.J. Scott Applewhite/AP ...
Asked what Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell would do to urge Republicans to be vaccinated, his office pointed to the his past statements promoting the vaccine. McConnell tweeted that he had been vaccinated, along with a picture of his vaccination card, in December. "As a polio survivor,...
"Democrats have already robbed American families once through inflation, and now their solution is to rob American families a second time," Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., argued. He said spending and tax increases in the legislation would eliminate jobs while having insignificant im...
In the Senate Mitch McConnell, the party’s minority leader, faced an unsuccessful challenge from Rick Scott, the senator from Florida. Although Mr Scott chaired the party committee in charge of ensuring a Senate majority, he blames Mr McConnell for the lacklustre result because he had expressed...