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Republicans plan to mount their first legislative blockade of the Biden presidency this week, and progressive activists are ready to send them a thank-you note. The GOP’s maiden filibuster won’t come on a tax increase or Medicare for All or the Green New Deal—not even on the Democrats’ big voting-rights package. No, Republicans are planning to block the creation of an independent, bipartisan

COVINGTON, Ky. − President Joe Biden and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, self-proclaimed friends despite their allegiance to different parties, met up in the senator's home state Wednesday to celebrate a bipartisan accomplishment many Kentuckians suspected was a pipe dream. A project politicians tried and failed to make happen for nearly 20 years − the construction of a companion to

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has broken another record with his decades-long career in Congress when he became the longest-serving party leader in Senate history. That record had been held by Democratic Sen. Mike Mansfield of Montana, but McConnell pulled ahead when Congress convened at noon Tuesday. He has led the Senate Republicans for 16 years and counting − a powerful role he

Mitch McConnell has had a long and distinguished career, but he may well be remembered for yesterday more than anything else.

He steered his caucus toward fulfilling its duty, explained himself in a thoughtful, cogent, and deeply felt speech, and then after the proceedings were disrupted by a pro-Trump mob, stirringly expressed his disgust and commitment to Congress completing its work