Tag: Mitch McConnell

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., joined by Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., left, Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., second from right, and Majority Whip John Cornyn, R-Texas, right, speaks with reporters about the confirmation for President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, following a closed-door GOP policy meeting, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2018.

How Senate Republicans can overcome Dems’ nominations blockade

Quin Hillyer · January 22, 2019 11:12 pm

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., left, talks with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., before his speech at the McConnell Center's Distinguished Speaker Series Monday, Feb. 12, 2018, in Louisville, Ky.

Senate sets up Thursday votes on doomed plans to reopen the government

Susan Ferrechio · January 22, 2019 9:30 pm

Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., speaks.

McConnell ups pressure on Democrats: Shutdown solution ‘staring us right in the face’

Susan Ferrechio · January 22, 2019 6:45 pm

President Donald Trump leaves the podium after speaking about the partial government shutdown, immigration and border security in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House, in Washington, Saturday, Jan. 19, 2019.

Still no shutdown deal: House, Senate to vote on dueling border security proposals this week

Susan Ferrechio · January 22, 2019 2:41 pm

Chris Wallace grills Pence: Aren’t you using the border wall as leverage?

Naomi Lim · January 20, 2019 10:20 pm

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., third from right, accompanied by from left, Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., President Trump, Vice President Mike Pence, Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., Sen. Todd Young, R-Ind., and Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, speaks to reporters following a Senate Republican Policy lunch on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.

McConnell: Senate will vote next week on Trump plan

Susan Ferrechio · January 19, 2019 9:56 pm

Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Sergei Kislyak.

Beltway Confidential

Letter from the editor: Jan. 22, 2019

Hugo Gurdon · January 18, 2019 5:00 am

Elaine Chao, secretary of transportation, arrives to a National Space Council meeting at the National Defense University in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2018.

The unflappable Elaine Chao

Whitney Blake · January 18, 2019 5:00 am

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky listens as President Trump talks to the media after a Senate Republican policy lunch on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2018, in Washington. At right is Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa.

Beltway Confidential

McConnell should invite Trump to deliver the State of the Union in the Senate chamber

Philip Wegmann · January 17, 2019 8:45 pm

President Trump directed Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin to design a financial aid program for oil companies with Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette (not pictured).

Senate blocks resolution to stop Trump from lifting Russian sanctions

Susan Ferrechio · January 16, 2019 6:14 pm

The Kentucky Republican was candid about challenges Republicans face next year. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Hoping to keep his seat and wary of angering the base, McConnell defers to Trump on the shutdown

David M. Drucker · January 16, 2019 5:03 am

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., walks with an aide on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2019.

Senate ignores Trump, votes to consider bill reversing decision to lift Russia sanctions

Susan Ferrechio · January 15, 2019 10:28 pm