Tag: Mitch McConnell

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell last week called on the Senate Ethics Committee to investigate Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Al Franken to be investigated by toothless Senate panel

Susan Ferrechio · November 21, 2017 5:01 am

It's beginning to look like Bannon's drive to oust Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is a drive to install Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu)

Beltway Confidential

Steve Bannon’s stock plummeting in the political marketplace

Michael Barone · November 20, 2017 3:53 pm

Many House Republicans, including Speaker Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, have been reluctant to embrace the repeal of the Obamacare individual mandate in the Senate tax reform plan. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Obamacare emerges as wildcard in tax debate

Susan Ferrechio · November 19, 2017 5:01 am

John James, an Iraq War veteran and businessman, is seeking the GOP nomination in Michigan to run against Democratic Sen. Debbie Stabenow in 2018. (AP Photo/David Eggert)

John James rises in Michigan Senate race after Fred Upton’s exit

David M. Drucker · November 18, 2017 5:01 am

White House counsel Donald McGahn reveals how he stunned Federalist Society with a prank

Ryan Lovelace · November 17, 2017 11:06 pm

Each scheme reeked of central planning. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

Beltway Confidential

Washington grudgingly agrees to let Alabama pick its own senator

Pete Kasperowicz · November 17, 2017 3:00 pm

Has Sen. Al Franken acknowledged the misconduct alleged by radio host Leeann Tweeden? The answer is no. Franken has acknowledged the actions in a photo in which he mimics groping a sleeping Tweeden. But Franken has not admitted Tweeden's more serious charge that he physically forced himself on her while rehearsing for a skit during a USA tour in 2008. (AP Photos)

Al Franken will show if Democrats mean what they say on sexual abuse

W. James Antle III · November 17, 2017 5:01 am

Former Alabama Chief Justice and U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore dug in his heels Thursday amid multiple sexual misconduct allegations and demands from national GOP leaders that he stand aside. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

Roy Moore digs in, boosted by top Alabama Republicans

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

Supreme Court Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch spoke at the Federalist Society's 2017 National Lawyers Convention in Washington Thursday night. (AP Photo/Sait Serkan Gurbuz)

Neil Gorsuch: Scalia’s views on the Constitution aren’t ‘going anywhere on my watch’

Ryan Lovelace · November 17, 2017 4:53 am

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said Thursday that President Trump agrees with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., that an ethics investigation is necessary to look into allegations that Franken sexually harassed a radio host in 2006. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Sarah Sanders: Ethics investigation into allegations about Al Franken ‘appropriate action’

Melissa Quinn · November 16, 2017 9:11 pm

Roy Moore: ‘Mitch McConnell and his cronies’ are trying to steal the Alabama election

Sarah Bedford · November 16, 2017 9:02 pm

Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee (pictured right), said he will hold a hearing on Nov. 28 for Alex Azar, President Trump's new pick for Health and Human Services secretary. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Senate prepares to hold hearings on HHS nominee Alex Azar

Kimberly Leonard · November 16, 2017 8:41 pm