Tag: Mitch McConnell

Chris McDaniel's insurgent senate campaign in Mississippi raised little money in the second quarter, jeopardizing his special election campaign. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Roy Moore loss doesn’t faze Steve Bannon’s Senate candidate in Mississippi

David M. Drucker · December 17, 2017 5:01 am

House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., cast the tax reform bill as an example of delivering on Republican promises to voters. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

GOP isn’t spooked by Democrats’ dire warnings on tax reform

Al Weaver · December 16, 2017 5:01 am

"This resolution will help us hit control-alt-delete on the FCC's decision," Schumer said Friday. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Chuck Schumer pledges to force vote on resolution to reverse FCC’s net neutrality repeal

Melissa Quinn · December 15, 2017 11:16 pm

"The Democrats have done nothing in terms of children, in terms of child tax credit," the president told reporters. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Trump: Child tax credit ‘increasing on a daily basis’

Gabby Morrongiello · December 15, 2017 3:31 pm

Senate Majority Whip Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, speaks to reporters. He, along with other Senate Republican leaders, are trying to get more of their senators to vote for the tax reform bill. Cornyn said he expected to pass the final bill Tuesday. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Winning over a few senators is all Republicans need to do to pass tax reform in a week

Joseph Lawler · December 15, 2017 12:15 am

The Alabama Senate election Tuesday was not the end of the feud between former White House strategist Steve Bannon, a conservative firebrand, and the firmly establishment Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. (AP Images)

Beltway Confidential

The problem with Mitch McConnell’s Alabama autopsy and the ‘Bannon Effect’

Philip Wegmann · December 14, 2017 9:34 pm

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore, center, looks at election returns with staff during an election-night watch party at the RSA activity center, Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2017, in Montgomery, Ala. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

Beltway Confidential

After the Alabama Senate race, conservatives must ditch their anger

Quin Hillyer · December 14, 2017 9:10 pm

The Senate Leadership Fund tweeted an image stating, "This is your state," with a map of a deep-red Alabama in the 2014 Senate election. The map then shifts to a state peppered with blue and red in Tuesday's special election and states, "This is your state on [Steve] Bannon." (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

Mitch McConnell-aligned super PAC slams Steve Bannon after Alabama Senate loss: ‘This is your state on Bannon’

Melissa Quinn · December 14, 2017 8:53 pm

U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore leaves the stage after speaking at the RSA activity center, Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2017, in Montgomery, Ala. Moore did not concede defeat to his Democratic opponent Doug Jones. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)

Republicans: Losing Alabama was bad, Roy Moore winning would have been worse

David M. Drucker · December 14, 2017 5:01 am

House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady, R-Texas, shakes hands with Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, at a joint tax conference on Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2017. GOP leaders announced they have forged an agreement on tax reform, which includes a provision that would eliminate Obamacare penalties waged on people who do not have health insurance. (Graeme Jennings / Washington Examiner)

Republican deal on tax bill would eliminate Obamacare mandate penalties

Kimberly Leonard · December 13, 2017 11:30 pm

"All very gracious, congratulating us on the way we have run this race, the way we portrayed ourself in the campaign, and all expressing a desire to look forward together to try to work for the betterment of the state of Alabama and this country," Doug Jones said. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)

Doug Jones says he got congratulatory calls from Trump and party leaders, but not Roy Moore

Diana Stancy Correll · December 13, 2017 10:17 pm

"If Congress sends me a bill before Christmas, the IRS -- this is breaking news -- the IRS has confirmed that taxpayers will begin seeing it in their paychecks beginning in February," the president said. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Trump: Americans could start seeing tax cuts in February

Gabby Morrongiello · December 13, 2017 9:10 pm