Tag: Mitch McConnell

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., listens as President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Republican lawmakers in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2018, in Washington.

Trump, McConnell take first steps toward criminal justice reform

Washington Examiner · December 14, 2018 2:42 pm

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., listens to a question during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, Dec. 13, 2018.

Nancy Pelosi due to be America’s oldest House speaker

Susan Ferrechio · December 14, 2018 12:01 am

FILE - In this Aug. 13, 2015, file photo, hemp plants tower above researchers who tend to them at a research farm in Lexington, Ky. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Monday, March 26, 2018, he wants to bring hemp production back into the mainstream by removing it from the controlled substances list that now associates it with marijuana, its illicit cousin.

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Congress finally supports hemp, but it should never have been illegal in the first place

Erin Dunne · December 13, 2018 2:01 pm

Senate Republicans ‘puzzled’ by Trump’s tactics amid rising shutdown risk

Al Weaver · December 12, 2018 9:44 pm

Sens. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Mike Lee, R-Utah, have introduced a joint resolution which would end U.S. military involvement in the conflict in Yemen. (AP Photos)

Senate fires warning shot at Trump, votes to advance Yemen resolution

Susan Ferrechio · December 12, 2018 8:38 pm

House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., attends a news conference, Thursday, Sept. 13, 2018, in Washington.

Paul Ryan blocks House from taking up Yemen bill

Susan Ferrechio · December 12, 2018 7:11 pm

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., joined from left by Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., and Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., speak following their weekly strategy session, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2018.

McConnell urges Senate to block ‘inappropriate’ war powers measure aimed at Trump, Saudis

Susan Ferrechio · December 12, 2018 4:16 pm

Vice President Mike Pence, center, looks on as House Minority Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., speaks during a meeting with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2018, in Washington.

Nancy Pelosi's 'manhood' barb at Trump is her latest gender-conscious quip

Dominick Mastrangelo · December 12, 2018 1:35 pm

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of California walks out of the West Wing to speak to members of the media outside of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2018, following a meeting with President Trump.

Trump-Pelosi brawl sends Congress back to the drawing board on spending

Susan Ferrechio · December 12, 2018 5:00 am

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks during a news conference at the Capitol in D.C.

Schumer seeks McConnell’s help after Trump’s shutdown threat

Al Weaver · December 11, 2018 8:27 pm

From left, Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, former Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, and Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, speak before President Trump announced his support for the first major rewrite of the nation's criminal justice sentencing laws in a generation in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2018.

Congress suddenly set to pass criminal justice reform bill as soon as next week

Susan Ferrechio · December 11, 2018 6:38 pm

President Trump and Vice President Mike Pence meet with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., left and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., not shown, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington.

Trump calls criminal justice bill ‘proud’ shared goal of GOP, Democrats

Steven Nelson · December 11, 2018 6:08 pm