The Senate overwhelmingly voted to extend economic sanctions against the Islamic Republic of Iran for 10 years, 99-0, with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) the lone senator missing Thursday’s vote that sets up a confrontation with President Barack Obama.
Democrats replaced their departing leader with Sen. Chuck Schumer, meaning the New Yorker will be Washington’s most powerful Democrat as the party confronts a Republican-dominated government.
“We need a new president, Donald Trump,” Mitch McConnell said, according to Associated Press. The Leader has neither cheered nor jeered the New York City developer in recent months.
The Republican-controlled House and Senate Wednesday overwhelmingly approved a stop-gap budget that funds the federal government through Dec. 9, confirming the breakdown of Regular Order and putting the next budget crisis inside Congress’ lame duck session.
Congress is poised to override President Barack Obama’s veto of a bill that would allow families of Sept. 11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia for the kingdom’s alleged backing of the terrorists who carried out the attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people.
Included in Obama’s proposal is a plan to bring in a “significantly higher” number of Syrian refugees in FY 2017 than the 11,503 who have arrived in FY 2016 as of Wednesday. The Obama administration set a goal of 10,000 this year, and has already exceeded that number with more than two weeks to go in this fiscal year.
House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell met with President Barack Obama at the White House Monday together with Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid and House Minority leader Nancy Pelosi.
Friday on Fox New Channel’s “America’s Newsroom,” Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s campaign chief Paul Manafort said the Republican Party is “united,” and “you will see a coming together of both Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump in the
Wednesday on his syndicated radio show, conservative talker Sean Hannity criticized several high-ranking Republicans for how they have treated their party’s nominee Donald Trump. According to Hannity, if Trump loses in November, House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Senate Majority
After more that 75 other speakers, she was the first one of speak about the presumed Democratic nominee for president as a close friend. Grimes talked about a woman that she interacted with as a fellow human, not the political ally or champion of causes everyone else seems to know her as.
CLEVELAND, OH — Tuesday at the Republican National Convention, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) made the case for a Donald Trump presidency, noting the flaws of Trump’s opponent, presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, and how a Trump presidency
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) praised former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday — the day after the House Select Committee on Benghazi issued its final report.
Senate conservatives lost their fight to protect investors when the Senate passed the Puerto Rico default bill, by 60 to 30 votes, on Wednesday.
No matter what Donald Trump does, he can’t win over the GOP’s establishment — precisely because his revival of Abe Lincoln’ and Teddy Roosevelt’s economic nati0nalism is energy for the party’s voters and also poison for the establishment’s donors.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) was busy praising presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton Wednesday, criticizing his own party’s presumptive nominee, Donald Trump, while Trump remained focused on calling out Clinton over failures from her time as Secretary of State.
On June 29, The New York Times observed that the Republican opposition to gun control is beginning to crack ever so slightly. Senators Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Kelly Ayotte (R-NH), Pat Toomey (R-PA), Susan Collins (R-Maine) and others are ready to support gun control proposals if those proposals are framed in the language of terrorism.
In the weeks after the Orlando terror attack, Gabby Giffords has been fighting for more gun control, while gays have been fighting for more guns.
During the June 26 airing of ABC New’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said gun control is tabled and focus has shifted to the Zika virus.
Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) refused to answer twice if presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is qualified to be president. Partial transcript as follows: STEPHANOPOULOS: Let’s get more right now from Senator Mitch
Gun control Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is cheering the decision by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to allow another vote on gun control by the end of next week.
House Democrats seized the House Floor as Speaker Paul D. Ryan addressed the American Enterprise Institute about his plans to amend President Barack Obama’s healthcare reform in 2017.
The Democratic Senate Whip Sen. Charles Schumer (D.-N.Y.) told reporters that the most important thing about the No-Fly-No-Buy amendment proposed by Sen. Susan Collins (R.-Maine) is the opportunity to drive a wedge between the Republican Party and the National Rifle Association.
In a Fox News Sunday appearance, Sen. Jeff Sessions beat back all the criticism leveled against Donald Trump by corporate media in recent days. Sessions also issued a clear warning to Republican leaders like House Speaker Paul Ryan, whose recent statements about Trump seem designed to undermine Republicans’ chance of electoral success against Hillary Clinton.
Sen. Marco Rubio is traveling with President Barack Obama aboard Air Force One as he visits Orlando.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) says he be may be “open” to placing new gun controls on law-abiding citizens following the terror attack on Pulse Orlando.
Monday on NewsmaxTV’s “The Steve Malzberg Show,” Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said it is “nonsense” that he and Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), as the leadership of the GOP, get blamed by many for causing the “rise” in popularity
Monday on the Senate floor, Senate Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) said his colleague Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) was “the poster boy for the Republicans’ spinelessness, which allowed Donald Trump to be the nominee for president of the
Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Sennate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said he is concerned about Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s effect on the Hispanic vote. Partial transcript as follows: TODD: In your book, you spend a lot of time
Friday on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said he would prefer if Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump used “more scripts.” McConnell said, “We were together, Trump and I, at the NRA convention in my home
Thursday on 1090 AM’s WBAL “News Now with Bryan Nehman,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump “ought to stop” his political tactic of name-calling to tick people off. When asked if he is bothered
In an interview with Business Insider, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) warned against those attempting to thwart a Donald Trump presidency by introducing a third-party alternative to the mix. McConnell was specifically asked about Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol’s
In an appearance to promote his memoir “The Long Game,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) reacted to comments from former Attorney General Eric Holder’s remarks on Edward Snowden during Tuesday’s broadcast of Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends.” Holder
Monday in an appearance to promote his new memoir “The Long Game” on “CBS This Morning,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) addressed the possibility that some in the Republican Party will buck the party to go with a presidential
In a preview clip of an interview set to air on this weekend’s “CBS Sunday Morning,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said he is not concerned about Donald Trump’s more controversial proposals because if the Republican presidential nominee wins the
Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump said his day in Washington, D.C. meeting with Republican leadership was “great.”
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid says presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump is “everything that the Republican leader and his party could ever want,” referencing Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and his meeting with Trump.
NEW YORK CITY, New York — Ahead of presumptive 2016 GOP presidential nominee billionaire Donald Trump’s meeting with House Speaker Paul Ryan on Thursday in Washington, D.C. on Capitol Hill, the real estate magnate told Breitbart News that he looks forward to the meetings and expects great things will come of them.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell believes presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump will do better in the general election in November against Democrat frontrunner Hillary Clinton than political pundits have predicted.
Andy McCarthy, senior fellow at National Review and former Assistant U.S. Attorney, joined SiriusXM host Stephen K. Bannon on Monday’s Breitbart News Daily to make his case that Donald Trump is playing Republican primary voters for “chumps,” because “he is the Establishment” he claims to be running against.
Alfred S. Regnery joined Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Stephen K. Bannon Monday morning to discuss a troubling sentencing reduction bill currently making its way through Congress in part with help from some conservatives — adding Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell must be convinced not to bring it up.
