Mitch McConnell - Page 62

“Our goal is to get [Trade Promotion Authority] and [Trade Adjustment Assistance] to the president’s desk this week and deliver this win for the American people,” Boehner said in a statement Tuesday morning.

In an wide-ranging interview that aired on Tuesday’s “Special Report” on the Fox News Channel, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was pressed on the secretive nature of the process of the so-called Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) passage. McConnell evaded Baier’s queries about

On Thursday’s “Hugh Hewitt Show,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) explained he did not anticipate the U.S. Senate would confirm any more of President Barack Obama’s federal judicial appointments with the exception of ones signed off on by a

One year ago, Gina McCarthy, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator, announced the controversial centerpiece of the Obama Administration’s climate change legacy: the Clean Power Plan (CPP). The rule is slated for finalization this summer.

Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) endorsed newly nominated GOP gubernatorial candidate Matt Bevin at a Lincoln Day Dinner Saturday night.

Tea Party favorite Matt Bevin will be the Republican nominee for governor of Kentucky. His primary opponent, Agriculture Commissioner James Comer, conceded late Thursday after a recanvass of last week’s primary election confirmed Bevin maintained an 83 vote lead.

Results of a recanvass of votes cast in last week’s Kentucky gubernatorial primary confirm that Tea Party-supported Matt Bevin has won.

From the New York Times: WASHINGTON — The sleepy United States senators thought they were done voting. But then, around 1 a.m. on the Saturday before Memorial Day, Senator Rand Paul, Republican of Kentucky and presidential candidate, marched spryly to

The U.S. Senate limped into its Memorial Day recess leaving a key piece of legislative business unfinished: how to handle the National Security Agency’s (NSA) bulk collection of telephone data.

Deal making in the Senate: Mitch McConnell promises a vote on the Ex-Im Bank in order to move the controversial TPA bill ahead.

The PATRIOT Act filibuster that Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) led on Wednesday evening has proven one big thing: That his colleague from Kentucky, the Majority Leader of the U.S. Senate, agrees with his predecessor that there shouldn’t be open process or debate when the Senate considers major pieces of legislation.

Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT), who joined Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) in his filibuster on the U.S. Senate floor on Wednesday, told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview when he came off the Senate floor that he stands with Rand because Montanans want him to.

Louisville businessman Matt Bevin has apparently mounted a spectacular comeback in Kentucky. With all precincts reporting, Bevin leads Agriculture Commissioner James Comer by a whopping 83 votes in the primary to be the Republican party’s nominee for governor.

An embattled Republican, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, joined an embattled Democrat, ABC This Week host George Stephanopoulos, in a rare showing of bipartisan support for the Hillary Clinton-backed Obamatrade deal on Sunday morning.

Before Sen. Marco Rubio decided to run for president, members of the Republican establishment spoke to him about the possibility of remaining in the Senate.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) has joined the chorus of Republican presidential candidates and members of Congress opposed to granting President Barack Obama’s request for Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) which would fast-track the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) Pacific Rim trade deal.

It’s unclear if Mitch McConnell will now abandon his plans to push through Obama’s trade agenda, or if he’ll try again to pass it—but one thing is now clear: It’s going to be a lot more difficult than anyone thought to get this through the Senate even if it is possible to do so.

“We’ve both chosen to put policy before party,” Mitch McConnell says. “That’s how politics should be conducted, in my view.”

Only two Senate Republicans from the entire conference of 54 members have admitted they read the details of President Barack Obama’s secret Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal as of this time.

“It’s been almost an out of body experience but we’ve been working closely with the White House,” Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says about working with President Obama. “We’re working together to try to get it across the finish line.”

Americans clearly don’t want a big trade deal like TPP, and don’t really care about the issue that much. So here’s how pollsters and politicians intend to mislead us.

The vote that mattered in confirming Loretta Lynch to become the next Attorney General was not her actual confirmation vote, but the cloture vote that set that up, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview on Friday.

The GOP majority is because of the midterm elections last November, which saw a nine-seat swing in favor of Republicans—one of the biggest in history. But it’s quite clear from the empirical data that nothing has changed, and Reid’s office is clearly quite happy about it. It’s as if he’s still the Senate Majority Leader.

The Senate confirmed President Obama’s nominee for attorney general Loretta Lynch in a vote of 56-43, Thursday afternoon.

Obama’s nominee to replace Eric Holder as Attorney General has been met with one of the most contentious confirmation proceedings America has seen for the position, and now Senate Conservatives Fund President Ken Cuccinelli is calling out the GOP Senators and political gamesmanship enabling the controversial impending confirmation of U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch. The Senate vote has been set for Thursday.

Loretta Lynch is expected to be confirmed by a tight margin with much of the Republican caucus voting against her. Many have pointed to her support for executive amnesty as their reason for doing so.

Leading Senators say the Senate could move on a long-debated human trafficking bill and then take up Loretta Lynch’s nomination for Attorney General this week.

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush has joined Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid in calling for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to abandon his pre-election promise to fight President Obama’s executive amnesty by holding a vote to confirm U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch as Attorney General.

Several Republican senators—including many who just won re-election and won’t face voters for six more years—voted for more big government and nearly $150 billion to be added to the national debt on Tuesday night. The vote came on the so-called “Doc Fix” which provides taxpayer cash to Medicare provider doctors.

Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s attempt to reintroduce herself as the champion who will change the balance of power toward everyday Americans is “laughable.” McConnell  said, “Let me say this about

While most of the political world is distracted following presidential campaign announcements on both sides of the political aisle, the GOP establishment in the U.S. Senate is working to increase America’s national debt significantly with a bill this week that doles out more taxpayer cash for doctors treating Medicare patients.

In its lead editorial Sunday, the New York Times plays the race card, accusing Republicans of criticizing President Barack Obama’s foreign policy because he is black. The editors, like many on the left, refuse to acknowledge that it is Obama’s own radical policies,

The Obama administration, ever eager to inject race into a debate in order to call conservatives racists, is coyly denying charges that the GOP-controlled Senate is holding up Loretta Lynch’s nomination for the post of attorney general because she is black.

Potential Democratic Presidential candidate Gov. Jerry Brown told NBC News’ Meet the Press on Sunday that a letter that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) sent to all 50 governors urging them to block or ignore the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed carbon pollution regulations was “a disgrace.” Brown is somewhat of a hypocrite on the issue, because his family’s wealth reportedly comes from control of two huge imported oil trading firm.

California Governor Jerry Brown blasted Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) on NBC News’ Meet the Press on Sunday for his recent comments on climate change, calling the Tea Party favority “unfit to run for office.” Cruz had challenged late night host Seth Myers’ assertion that 2014 had been the “hottest year on record,” arguing that the data on temperature told a different story. Meet the Press host Chuck Todd played the clip for Brown, who responded by calling Cruz “unfit to run for office.”

With Obama’s attorney general nominee, Loretta Lynch, still lacking the votes for confirmation, Democrats are looking for four pro-gun control Republicans who will cross the aisle and support Lynch’s nomination.