Tag: Mitch McConnell

Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., comments on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh amid scrutiny of a woman's claim he sexually assaulted her at a party when they were in high school, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2018.

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If Democrats block all Senate bills over border wall fight, Republicans should respond by putting gas on judicial confirmations

Philip Klein · January 7, 2019 4:51 pm

Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., speaks at a hearing.

Senate Democrats from shutdown central call for ‘block’ of all bills that don’t open government

Daniel Chaitin, Naomi Lim · January 7, 2019 5:08 am

Senator Susan Collins, R-Maine, takes questions from reporters on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, December 11, 2018.

Susan Collins: Senate should vote on Democrats’ spending bills that passed the House

Naomi Lim · January 6, 2019 8:04 pm

President Donald Trump calls on a reporter to ask a question as he speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House after a meeting with Congressional leaders on border security, Friday, Jan. 4, 2019, at the White House in Washington, as House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy of Calif., House Minority Whip Steve Scalise of La., and Vice President Mike Pence listen.

McConnell, Thune skipped Trump presser because they were ‘unaware’ it was happening

Susan Ferrechio · January 4, 2019 8:26 pm

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks to reporters about the possibility of a partial government shutdown at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2018.

Chuck Schumer: Trump ‘needs intervention’

Pete Kasperowicz · January 4, 2019 4:13 pm

En route to a meeting at the White House, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., left, walks with Sen. Richard C. Shelby, R-Ala., chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, as work continues prior to a Friday night funding deadline to avoid a partial government shutdown, in Washington, Friday, Dec. 21, 2018. Trump is imploring McConnell to change the Senate's rules in order to pass the spending bill with money for a border wall.

Shutdown could last ‘months and months,’ says Senate Republican

Al Weaver · January 3, 2019 6:50 pm

Pelosi’s Day 1: Win the gavel, change the rules, end the shutdown

Pete Kasperowicz · January 3, 2019 5:00 am

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., speaks to reporters as she arrives for a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2018.

Senate confirms dozens of stalled Trump nominees hours before the 115th Congress ends

Susan Ferrechio · January 3, 2019 1:20 am

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Republican from Kentucky, center, speaks during a news conference after a Senate Republican weekly luncheon meeting at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, May 15, 2018. McConnell says he is "somewhat optimistic" after conversations with Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer that there will be more cooperation on nominations and appropriations.

McConnell vows Senate will block House funding bill that excludes wall money

Susan Ferrechio · January 3, 2019 12:51 am

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, center, talks with reporters as he walks on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2019, after returning from a meeting with President Trump at the White House.

White House meeting to end the shutdown gets nowhere

Susan Ferrechio · January 2, 2019 10:20 pm

House Minority Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., Vice President Mike Pence, President Donald Trump, and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., argue during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2018, in Washington.

Trump seeks border wall talk with congressional leaders as shutdown drags on

Josh Siegel · January 1, 2019 7:22 pm

Supporters hold up signs as the wait to hear President Donald Trump speak at a campaign rally Saturday, Nov. 3, 2018, in Pensacola, Fla.

MAGA list: 205 ‘historic results’ help Trump make case for 2020 re-election

Paul Bedard · December 31, 2018 10:34 am