Tag: Mitch McConnell

Beltway Confidential

Three ways the Senate could have avoided losing August recess

Rachel Bovard · August 7, 2018 8:10 pm

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., the sole Republican who had earlier opposed President Donald Trump's nominee for secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, tells the Senate Foreign Relations Committee he is changing his vote to yes, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, April 23, 2018.

Beltway Confidential

Rand Paul’s people have it right: Don’t get offended at jokes. Go on the offensive instead.

Becket Adams · August 7, 2018 6:24 pm

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., speaks to the audience gathered at the 138th annual Fancy Farm Picnic, Saturday, Aug. 4, 2018, in Fancy Farm, Ky.

Mitch McConnell announces 2020 re-election bid

Katelyn Caralle · August 5, 2018 8:12 pm

Activists march past the White House to protest the Trump administration's approach to illegal border crossings and separation of children from immigrant parents on June 30, 2018.

Beltway Confidential

The Trump administration must clean up its own mess on family separations

Erin Dunne · August 5, 2018 12:00 pm

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington.

Mitch McConnell names 2020 campaign chairman

Allison Elyse Gualtieri · August 4, 2018 6:15 pm

Frustrated Republicans tread carefully around Trump shutdown tweets

Susan Ferrechio · July 31, 2018 7:47 pm

Michelle Laudermilch carries personal belongings to her car as she is asked to evacuate her home in Hummelstown due to flooding on the Swatara Creek near Hershey, Pa., on July 25.

Energy and Environment

Senate passes 11th-hour flood insurance extension

John Siciliano · July 31, 2018 6:02 pm

FILE - In this Sept. 5, 2017, file photo, House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., left, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., right, listen as President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Congressional leaders and administration officials on tax reform, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington.

Ryan, McConnell warned Trump he’d ‘go down big’ if separating migrant families continued: Report

Naomi Lim · July 31, 2018 3:59 pm

President Donald Trump congratulates Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., while House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., watches to acknowledge the final passage of tax overhaul legislation by Congress at the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 20, 2017.

Beltway Confidential

Trump teaches Congress how to ignore him

Philip Wegmann · July 31, 2018 2:49 pm

Cyber defenses in spotlight after Helsinki summit

Charlie Mitchell · July 31, 2018 4:00 am

A display from The Satanic Temple-Chicago has been placed in the Statehouse rotunda at the Capitol in Springfield, Ill. It joins the Nativity scene to mark the Christmas season and the Menorah to mark Hanukkah.

Ann Coulter calls on Trump to fire Elaine Chao over Mitch McConnell’s refusal to push for border wall funding

Naomi Lim · July 30, 2018 9:13 pm

It signals that the proverbial buck no longer stops at the president's proverbial desk, so long as the executive can point at his predecessors and shout "they did it first!" (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Booz Allen profits spike as top executive downplays Trump’s shutdown threats

Joe Williams · July 30, 2018 1:34 pm