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Oct 24 2013
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Sen. Mitch McConnell calls Obamacare an ‘expensive joke’
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said Thursday that the plagued Obamacare rollout has been “absolute chaos” and a sign of what’s to come from the controversial law, which he called an “expensive joke.” Mr. McConnell, Kentucky Republican, said that once people are able to log in to the Obamacare website, HealthCare.gov, they are going to find out that they have fewer health care choices
Washington Times
Oct 17 2013
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Mitch McConnell defends deal, slams Obamacare tactics
At the end of the day, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell says he had no good option in the 16-day government shutdown fight. House Speaker John Boehner’s strategy collapsed. Ted Cruz’s push to use a shutdown to defund Obamacare was “not a smart play” and a “tactical error,” he said. And the country was staring at the threat of a prolonged shutdown and a potentially disastrous default on a
Politico
Jun 10 2013
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Mitch McConnell, Harry Reid: 2 sides of same coin
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell has carved out a role as the chief antagonist to Barack Obama and Harry Reid lampooning the presidentrsquos unpopularity in Kentucky and regularly attacking the majority leaderrsquos stewardship of the Senate. But McConnellrsquos 2014 campaign is a far different story Itrsquos a spitting image of the...
Politico
Mar 28 2013
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Mitch McConnell's scorched-earth strategy - Manu Raju
FRANKFORT Ky. mdash Kentucky is the Bluegrass State but by the time Mitch McConnell is done with his reelection campaign it may be better known for scorched earth. The top Senate Republican is preparing to wage a ruthless campaign to hang on to his job. Hersquos already on the air with nearly 200000 in TV and radio ads is assembling streams...
Politico
Jan 28 2013
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Democrats, tea party unite vs. Mitch McConnell
Tea party activists looking to oust Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell in a GOP primary may get some help from an unlikely source: Democrats.
Politico
Dec 26 2019
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Trump impeachment: Lisa Murkowski 'disturbed' by Mitch McConnell's stance
Republican US Senator Lisa Murkowski has said she was “disturbed” by the Senate leader’s approach to working with White House counsel on the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump, saying there should be distance between the two.
The comments by the Alaska lawmaker come after Mitch McConnell, majority leader of the Republican-led Senate, said during a Fox News interview earlier
The Guardian
Nov 27 2019
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Mitch McConnell Named WholeFoods Magazine’s 2019 Person of the Year
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has been named WholeFoods Magazine‘s 2019 person of the year– specifically for his attempts to “legalize industrial hemp.”
McConnell announced the win on his official Senate Majority Leader Twitter account, Wednesday.
“Honored to be named @WholeFoodsMag 2019 Person of the Year,” McConnell declared. “I was recognized as the most
Mediaite
Nov 25 2019
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Mitch McConnell’s Opposition to Federal Election Security Is Hitting Home
Don Blevins, Jr., has a lot to think about. In his job as the clerk of Fayette County, home to Lexington, the University of Kentucky, and more than 240,000 registered voters, he’s in charge of making sure elections happen securely and accurately. “There’s a lot of hand wringing over the Russians, there’s hand wringing from the far right about illegal immigrants voting and all that,” but
Mother Jones
Apr 12 2021
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Mitch McConnell tends his legacy 8,000 miles away
He reshaped the federal judiciary. He made history as the longest-serving Senate GOP leader. But Mitch McConnell has unfinished business more than 8,000 miles from the halls of Congress.
There's no more consistent or surprising through line to McConnell's 36-year career than promotion of democracy in Myanmar, a Southeast Asian nation of 55 million. McConnell's championing of
Politico
Feb 10 2023
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'That’s not a Republican plan': McConnell distances GOP from Scott on Social Security, Medicare sunset plan
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said any idea on sunsetting Social Security and Medicare belongs Sen. Rick Scott—not the GOP. “Unfortunately, that was the Scott plan, that’s not a Republican plan,” McConnell said on a Kentucky radio program. McConnell’s comments about Scott, a GOP rival, come as the White House continues to spotlight how Republicans heckled — and apparently committed
USA TODAY