Tag: Mitch McConnell

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., sit together at the Capitol in Washington on Jan. 17, 2018.

McConnell, Schumer launch Senate floor tributes to McCain

Susan Ferrechio · August 27, 2018 9:20 pm

Flags flying a half-staff in honor of Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., frame the U.S. Capital at daybreak in Washington, Sunday, Aug. 26, 2018. McCain, 81, died at his ranch in Arizona after a yearlong battle with brain cancer.

Chuck Schumer, Mitch McConnell want flags kept at half-staff until John McCain is buried

Robert Donachie · August 27, 2018 5:22 pm

"I can't imagine how it must bother someone who is literally signing the death warrants of some people who in their innocence decided to help the United States of America," John McCain said. (AP Photo)

John McCain to lie in state in US Capitol, Arizona State Capitol

Naomi Lim · August 26, 2018 6:35 pm

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., left, and Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., walk outside of the West Wing of the White House in Washington.

Schumer to introduce resolution to rename Senate building after John McCain

Melissa Quinn · August 26, 2018 1:35 am

Former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship makes his way out of a building.

Don Blankenship hires Manchin-supporting lawyer in push to overturn ‘sore loser’ law

David M. Drucker · August 25, 2018 4:00 am

A person casts her ballot during an election.

White House pushed for election protection bill to be delayed in Senate: Report

Naomi Lim · August 23, 2018 8:04 pm

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., arrives to speak with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington.

National Security

McConnell pushes Russia sanctions bill past September

Susan Ferrechio · August 21, 2018 7:02 pm

Vehicles make their way through flooded streets of Panorama City section of the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles on Saturday.

Energy and Environment

McConnell ‘grateful’ for Trump’s rollback of Obama air regulations

Susan Ferrechio · August 21, 2018 3:17 pm

GOP Absences Push Back Judicial Nominees

Haley Byrd · August 17, 2018 5:07 pm

Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., listens during a news conference with members of the Progressive Caucus in Washington, Monday, Nov. 12, 2018.

Beltway Confidential

Conservative coalition asks McConnell to change Senate rules, speed up judicial confirmations

Philip Wegmann · August 15, 2018 9:27 pm

Sen. Pat Toomey, the Pennsylvania Republican, speaks during a ceremony to award World War II veteran Clarence Smoyer, 96, the Bronze Star at the World War II Memorial, Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2019, in Washington.

Pat Toomey, the supply-siders’ field marshal in the Senate

Joseph Lawler · August 14, 2018 12:00 am

Arizona GOP Chairwoman Kelli Ward.

Kelli Ward ‘open’ to supporting McConnell as GOP leader if elected

Al Weaver · August 11, 2018 4:00 am