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This weekend, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) told a local ABC station he hopes the Republican presidential nominee decision will go to a second ballot at the Republican National Convention in July so delegates can vote for someone “who can

WASHINGTON—As President Barack Obama’s efforts to pressure Senate Republicans to confirm Merrick Garland’s nomination to the Supreme Court fail, liberal White House allies are floating a trial balloon of installing Garland on the Supreme Court without Senate confirmation.

In a portion of an interview CNN’s Dana Bash conducted with Republican presidential hopeful Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) that aired on CNN on Friday, Cruz was asked if he would offer an apology to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY)

Many Senate Republicans are offering their support to the 26 states challenging the president’s executive amnesty programs. They’re filing an amicus brief to the Supreme Court arguing Obama’s November 2014 unilateral actions are in violation of the “spirit” of immigration law and a threat to the separation of powers.

Chicago Tribune Editorial Board member Clarence Page argued that using Joe Biden’s past statements on Supreme Court appointments is “the kind of silliness that [Senate Majority Leader Sen.] Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has been reduced to now on Friday’s “McLaughlin Group.” Page said, “You’re

Friday on “The Big John Howell Show” on WLS-AM in Chicago, Sen. Mark Kirk (R-IL) weighed in on the polical battle brewing over President Barack Obama’s nomination, Judge Merrick Garland, to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court left by

Thursday at the Center for American Progress, Senate Minority Leader Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) blamed Republican leaders for enabling “the rise of  Donald Trump.” Reid said, “So when Trump calls immigrants rapists and murders he is doing what he has

Wednesday Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said “the Senate will continue to observe the Biden rule” in response to President Barack Obama’s nomination of Judge Merrick Garland to fill the vacancy on the on the Supreme Court left by

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama nominated Judge Merrick Garland to take Justice Antonin Scalia’s seat on the U.S. Supreme Court. But Republicans have already vowed that there will be no vote on his nomination through the end of 2016, with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell citing the “Biden rule,” i.e. that nominations should not happen in a lame-duck, presidential election year.

If Donald Trump wanted to invent a caricature of his opponents, he might spin a tale of GOP Establishment fixtures holding a secret meeting with decidedly non-conservative billionaires at a posh island resort to plot against him.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is asking people to sign a petition opposing President Barack Obama’s effort to replace Justice Antonin Scalia, who passed away last month. “There is not a snowball’s chance in hell that we will confirm

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump says he and Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) will get along well if he becomes president.

President Obama’s controversial Clean Power Plan (CPP) was published in the Federal Register on October 23, 2015. But that is hardly the end of the story. Instead the saga is just beginning—with the ending to be written sometime in 2017 and the outcome highly dependent on who resides in the White House.

The two top Republicans in Congress criticized GOP frontrunner Donald Trump on Tuesday for not denouncing white supremacists and an endorsement from David Duke.

Talk radio host Laura Ingraham said Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is “about power” and punishes his political enemies like President Obama on Monday’s “Laura Ingraham Show.” Ingraham said, “But for you to have trotted out this pledge over at

At the weekly Senate GOP leadership press conference, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said the replacement for the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia should be determined by the future president and not “lame-duck” President Barack Obama. McConnell said, “So

WASHINGTON D.C. — All eleven Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee — including Chairman Chuck Grassley — have sent a letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, informing the Kentucky Senator that the committee will not hold any hearings on President Barack Obama’s forthcoming nominee to take the seat left open by Justice Antonin Scalia’s unexpected death.

The Senate Judiciary Committee will not hold hearings on a Supreme Court nominee until the American people have voted and a new president is in the White House.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says the Senate will “withhold” consent of President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee.

On February 18, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) said President Obama will nominate a replacement for Antonin Scalia to the Supreme Court in “a little over three weeks.”

The GOP leader of the Senate, Sen. Mitch McConnell, and the chairman of the Senate’s judiciary committee, Sen. Chuck Grassley, are singing a choreographed and harmonious rejection of the Democratic Senators who want to quickly replace Justice Antonin Scalia with an appointee from President Barack Obama.

Tuesday on Fox News Channel’s “The Kelly File,” Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) told host Megyn Kelly there was little chance that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) would allow any nominee appointed by President Barack Obama to fill the Supreme

“Pursuing their radical strategy in a quixotic quest to deny the basic fact that the American people elected President Obama — twice — would rank among the most rash and reckless actions in the history of the Senate. And the consequences will reverberate for decades,” Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) wrote in an op-ed published at The Washington Post.

As debate over the nomination to replace Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia heats up, Republicans in D.C. are looking over their shoulder at businessman Donald J. Trump, who has said they should “delay, delay, delay.”

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has now promised to stifle any judicial nominee President Obama makes for the Supreme Court following the death of Justice Antonin Scalia. “The American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice. Therefore, this vacancy should not be filled until we have a new president,” he stated.

Columnist Charles Krauthammer argued that the replacement of Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court is “the moment of his life” for Senate Majority Leader Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY), and that any obstructionism charges pale in comparison to what would happen

Nearly fifty years ago, former Vice President Spiro Agnew said, “A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.”

On Sunday, California governor Jerry Brown slammed Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s statement that the Senate should wait until after the presidential election to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court left by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — As the nation mourns the passing of Justice Antonin Scalia, talk on Capitol Hill is raging about the possibility that President Barack Obama will fill the seat of the deceased conservative lion and how Sen. Mitch McConnell can block Obama by moving quickly to recall the Senate.

Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” while discussing President Barack Obama nominating a replacement for Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) predicted Republicans in the U.S. Senate would not follow Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell “over the cliff” in

Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest and the intellectual leader of the modern conservative movement, said on Saturday evening that the nation has suffered a tremendous loss with the passing of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.

President Obama will meet with House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senator Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday, according to the White House.

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) is linking the Republican House’s refugee bill to Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump’s controversial ban on Muslims.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says that the debate over Syrian refugees should be based on facts rather than “fearmongering.”

As House and Senate Republicans gather in Baltimore for their annual retreat this week, Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) says Democrats will force votes on Republican frontrunner Donald Trump’s proposals.

President Obama announced his executive gun controls on January 5, and as of January 9, House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) have refused to fight against it. So Obama is in a full-court press for more gun control–and he smells weakness.