Tag: Mitch McConnell

Beltway Confidential

Democrats destroy their own Supreme Court case

Hugo Gurdon · September 22, 2020 5:46 pm

Beltway Confidential

The decline of the Senate: From ‘advice and consent’ to ‘Just win, baby!’

David Davenport · September 22, 2020 4:13 pm

Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, speaks Thursday, Oct. 10, 2019, in Salt Lake City.

Romney backs vote on Supreme Court nominee, locking up votes for GOP

Susan Ferrechio · September 22, 2020 2:07 pm

Mitch McConnell urged voters in his home state of Kentucky on Wednesday to vote for Donald Trump. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

GOP guardedly optimistic Supreme Court fight will help hold the Senate

David M. Drucker · September 22, 2020 10:30 am

Beltway Confidential

Here come the Know-Nothings

Becket Adams · September 22, 2020 1:25 am

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., speaks during a Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 5, 2019, to examine vaccines, focusing on preventable disease outbreaks.

Locked in? Republicans appear to have votes to take up a SCOTUS nominee this year

Susan Ferrechio · September 21, 2020 11:58 pm

President Trump and Sen. Mitt Romney are shown.

Romney undecided on holding Supreme Court confirmation vote this year

Susan Ferrechio · September 21, 2020 10:46 pm

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., flanked by Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., left, and Majority Whip John Cornyn, R-Texas, speaks to the media on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, July 17, 2018. McConnell says there is "indisputable evidence" Russia tried to affect the 2016 presidential election. He says the Senate understands the "Russia threat" and that is the "widespread view here in the United States Senate among members of both parties."

Protesters write Ginsburg’s ‘dying wish’ in front of McConnell’s house

Nicholas Rowan · September 21, 2020 10:01 pm

McConnell: ‘We’re going to vote on this nomination’

Susan Ferrechio · September 21, 2020 8:27 pm

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid of Nev. pauses during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.

Beltway Confidential

Democrats threatening escalation should consider how that worked out for them last time

Zachary Faria · September 21, 2020 7:29 pm

Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., stands up to talk to President Donald Trump, right seated, as they sit with other Republican lawmakers during Game 5 of baseball World Series between the Houston Astros and Washington Nationals, Sunday, Oct. 27, 2019, at Nationals Park in Washington. Gaetz, influential in the Trump circle, has just authored a new book, "Firebrand."

Washington Secrets

Matt Gaetz: McConnell ‘sure as hell better deliver’ on court nominee vote

Paul Bedard · September 21, 2020 4:57 pm

Beltway Confidential

The Supreme Court is not the Make-a-Wish Foundation

Becket Adams · September 20, 2020 6:34 pm