Tag: Mitch McConnell

McConnell: 'Hard to keep a straight face' on Democrats' Supreme Court opposition

Susan Ferrechio · July 9, 2018 4:57 pm

Leonard Leo, then-executive vice president of the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy, takes questions from the Washington Examiner during an interview at his office in Washington, on Friday, Jan. 19, 2018.

Trump’s outside adviser for judicial nominations ‘very confident’ Senate ‘can get anybody confirmed’ to Supreme Court

Melissa Quinn · July 8, 2018 2:35 pm

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., tells reporters he intends to cancel the traditional August recess and keep the Senate in session to deal with backlogged tasks, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 5, 2018.

Protesters accost Mitch McConnell as he leaves Kentucky restaurant

Emma Ayers · July 8, 2018 1:26 pm

Trump and Corker clashed late last month after the president initially declined to explicitly condemn several white nationalist groups that were behind a rally that turned violent in Charlottesville, Va.

Club for Growth sides with Corker over Trump on trade bill

David M. Drucker · July 6, 2018 4:09 pm

Claire McCaskill and Joe Manchin

Senate Democrats walk a 2018 tightrope on Supreme Court confirmation vote

David M. Drucker · July 6, 2018 4:00 am

Beltway Confidential

The swamp lives on in the Senate

Rachel Bovard · July 5, 2018 7:15 pm

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., left, walk to the chamber after collaborating on an agreement in the Senate on a two-year, almost $400 billion budget deal that would provide Pentagon and domestic programs with huge spending increases, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2018.

McConnell laughs at Schumer over Merrick Garland for Supreme Court suggestion

Al Weaver · July 5, 2018 7:14 pm

Mitch McConnell: Gun control will have to be solved at the local level

Emma Ayers · July 3, 2018 8:43 pm

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

Senate gears start grinding for a JOBS ACT 3.0

Joseph Lawler · July 2, 2018 12:00 am

White House moving rapidly to prepare for Supreme Court battle

Gabby Morrongiello · June 30, 2018 4:00 am

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., speaks with the media after a policy luncheon on Capitol Hill on May 8, 2018. He is accompanied by Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas.

GOP wants new Supreme Court justice seated by October

Susan Ferrechio · June 29, 2018 4:00 am

Donald Trump and Maxine Waters

Beltway Confidential

True civility is the opposite of revenge

Jason Russell · June 29, 2018 4:00 am