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Jun 15 2012
News
Mitch McConnell: Obama Campaign Is 'Nixonian' In Efforts To 'Silence Critics'
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) leveled harsh criticism at the Obama campaign on Thursday, comparing the president and his team's efforts to "silence critics" to the actions of Richard Nixon.
HuffPost
Apr 09 2013
News
Mitch McConnell: Yeah, I'm Joining This Gun Control Filibuster
Weeks ago Senators Ted Cruz Mike Lee and Rand Paul threatened to filibuster any kind
Townhall
Jan 21 2022
News
Mitch McConnell says US should arm Ukraine after Biden’s Russia comments
Senate Republican Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said Thursday the US should arm Ukraine, a day after President Joe Biden’s remarks raised questions about an international response to a Russian invasion.
Biden seemed to imply during a news conference on Wednesday that the US and its allies might not be unified in response to Russia if it attacks Ukraine in “a minor incursion.”
New York Post (News)
Aug 22 2019
Opinion
Mitch McConnell: The Filibuster Plays a Crucial Role in Our Constitutional Order
Democrats who want to change Senate rules for temporary political gain will rue the day, as they have before.
“You’ll regret this, and you may regret this a lot sooner than you think.”
That was my warning to Senate Democrats in November 2013. Their leader, Harry Reid, had just persuaded them to trample longstanding Senate rules and precedents. Now that some Democrats are
Mitch McConnell
May 03 2023
News
Biden’s debt ceiling game plan for McCarthy: Get McConnell to engage
But now that hope has burst into public view. Next week’s meeting between Biden and the so-called Big Four congressional leaders marks a new stage in the standoff. And it is a conscious effort by the White House to get McConnell to have some skin in the game. Biden and his team have consciously side-stepped the one-on-one negotiation Republicans want to have between the president and House
Politico
Mar 23 2021
News
Senate filibuster reform would produce 'nuclear winter', says Mitch McConnell
Mitch McConnell, who was accused of laying waste to bipartisan co-operation in the Senate when he blocked a supreme court pick by Barack Obama then changed the rules to hurry through three picks for Donald Trump, has said that if Democrats do away with the filibuster, they will “turn the Senate into a sort of nuclear winter”.
The Republican minority leader, who himself invoked the “
The Guardian
Oct 07 2018
News
Mitch McConnell: Senate 'stood up for presumption of innocence' with Kavanaugh confirmation
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says the Senate “stood up for presumption of innocence” by confirming Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.
Washington Times
Nov 14 2018
News
Mitch McConnell Just Blocked A Bipartisan Bill To Protect Robert Mueller
Sen. Jeff Flake vowed not to vote for any more of President Trump's judicial nominees until the Senate votes to protect Mueller, putting pressure on McConnell to change his mind.
BuzzFeed News
Nov 15 2018
News
Mitch McConnell wrote an op-ed calling for bipartisanship, and people are not having it
The date was Oct. 23, 2010 — nearly two years into President Barack Obama’s first term and two weeks before the first midterm elections of his presidency. Speaking to the National Journal,
Washington Post