McConnell refused to confirm Obama’s Supreme Court nominee during an election year. But for a 2020 vacancy? “Oh, we’d fill it.” In 2016, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell successfully kept Obama appointee Merrick Garland off the Supreme Court bench by insisting it would be a cardinal sin if a Supreme Court justice was …
The Senate rules make no sense. President Trump initially presented his plan to shut down the federal government as a hopelessly misconceived gambit to force Democrats to fund his border wall. But now he is presenting it as something slightly different: a gambit to force Republicans to change the rules of the Senate to …
RUTLAND, N.D. — When Senator Heidi Heitkamp, a Democrat, and her Republican opponent, Representative Kevin Cramer, put Sunday’s annual Uffda Day celebration on their schedules this year, they most likely thought they would get an earful from voters about tariffs here in the heart of North Dakota’s soybean belt. But …
Franklin D. Roosevelt, afflicted by the disease at age 39, died in April 1945 at the polio recuperation facility he had created in Warm Springs, Ga. Before then, Mitch McConnell, living in Five Points, Ala., began going there for treatment for the polio that struck him at age 2, in 1944. After paralysis by …
You’ve probably heard that the United States Senate has agreed to let its members bring their babies onto the Senate floor. This would be happy news at any time, but it does have a special attraction in a week when the second most cheerful story was probably the discovery that …
FILE – In this Feb. 14, 2018, photo, Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., speaks to Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses Summit, on Capitol Hill, in Washington. Babies do not care about Senate decorum. But in a bow to working parents, the tradition-bound institution is considering letting the newborns of senators in. …
Washington (AFP) – The US Senate blocked several immigration proposals Thursday including a bipartisan compromise opposed by President Donald Trump, dashing hopes that Congress will soon decide the fate of nearly two million migrants brought to the country illegally as children. Trump had threatened to veto the bipartisan deal, which …
WASHINGTON — Senator Mitch McConnell sounded downright magnanimous in anticipation of 2018, eager to work closely with Democrats even though he had cut them out of virtually every big-ticket deliberation during 2017. “We’re going to be looking for areas of bipartisan agreement because that’s the way the Senate is,” Mr. …
Senator Mitch McConnell took a sarcastic shot on Friday at Stephen K. Bannon, telling reporters at an end-of-the-year news conference that Mr. Bannon’s “political genius” had cost the party a Senate seat in Alabama. As he looked to the new year, on the heels of this week’s passage of a …
In November, Sen. Orrin G. Hatch, who is 83, was at the helm when the Senate’s massive tax bill came through the Finance Committee. But Hatch also deputized four younger Republicans on the panel to serve as de facto co-chairmen over various parts of the legislation. This week, with a …
By midday Wednesday, we will likely know who won the Alabama Senate race to fill the seat vacated by Attorney General Jeff Sessions. We may not, mind you; polling in the race shows a range of outcomes from Democrat Doug Jones winning by 10 points to Republican Roy Moore winning by nine. …
They’ll need to give him either money or spend time negotiating with him. They don’t have either to spare. When Senate Republicans unveiled the latest version of their tax-cut plan last night, they claimed to have the votes in hand, and it appeared they might be correct. But now it …