Tag: Mitch McConnell

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Thursday, the measure would relieve people of "the worry that their Internet access is being taxed." (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Senate advances customs bill that bans Internet tax

Susan Ferrechio · February 11, 2016 4:06 pm

This is another tax relief measure we have done in drib and drabs, McConnell said. This would make it permanent. Its another important accomplishment of this majority. (Bloomberg/Drew Angerer)

Senate moves to ban taxes on Internet access

Susan Ferrechio · February 9, 2016 10:29 pm

Jim Gilmore: Ted Cruz has ‘really hurt the country’

Daniel Chaitin · February 7, 2016 11:50 pm

Some activists and conservative lawmakers are clamoring for Senate leadership to eliminate the filibuster. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

GOP senators still feeling the heat on omnibus bill

Joel Gehrke · February 5, 2016 4:41 pm

Congress freaks out about Zika

Paige Winfield Cunningham · February 4, 2016 5:01 am

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said the two issues were the ones discussed with the Obama, "on which we might make progress." (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama, GOP emerge with very short ‘to do’ list

Susan Ferrechio · February 2, 2016 10:26 pm

Obama to push Ryan, McConnell on cancer research

Nicole Duran · February 1, 2016 8:50 pm

They are meeting to discuss legislative priorities and areas of possible compromise for the rest of the year. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Obama, Ryan, McConnell to huddle Tuesday

Susan Crabtree · January 29, 2016 6:47 pm

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell both touted a bill by Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Maria Cantwell as a good chance for bipartisan energy reform. (AP file photo/Evan Vucci)

Energy and Environment

McConnell, Reid urge passage of energy bill

John Siciliano · January 27, 2016 6:52 pm

I was told that in the island of Puerto Rico theres a shortage of suitcases, luggage, because people are leaving that little country," Harry Reid said. (AP Photo)

Reid: Puerto Rico debt crisis is causing ‘shortage of suitcases’

Joel Gehrke · January 27, 2016 5:46 pm

McConnell had said in recent days that the only Authorization for Use of Military Force he's interested in passing is one that gives the president every option available to fight the terrorist group. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

National Security

McConnell: Use any force necessary to defeat Islamic State

Pete Kasperowicz · January 21, 2016 2:31 pm

Barrasso said Obama's decision to block coal mining leases on federal land for the next three years is essentially an attack on rural America, which relies on coal for both jobs and energy. (AP File Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Energy and Environment

GOP moves to block Obama’s ban on coal leases

Susan Ferrechio · January 21, 2016 5:01 am