Mitch McConnell

Type: Person

Name: Mitch McConnell

Title: Senator - Kentucky (USA)

First reported 1 hour ago - Updated 29 mins ago - 2 reports

Abolitionist Frederick Douglass celebrated with Capitol statue

WASHINGTON Frederick Douglass, prominent abolitionist, writer and orator, now towers over a podium in the U.S. Capitol, a speech curled passionately in his hand.Vice President Joe Biden, House Speaker John Boehner and several key members of Congress sat ... [Published Rock Hill Herald - 1 hour ago]

Entities: Frederick Douglass, Mitch McConnell, Harry Reid

First reported 3 hours ago - Updated 2 hours ago - 3 reports

Republican Party (US)

Harry Reid, 2005, Was Against 'Nuclear Option' Before He Was For It

By Susan Duclos Yesterday Senate minority leader, Mitch McConnell, called Senate majority leader Harry Reid's bluff on using what is referred to as the "nuclear option" to change the rules of the Senate to prevent the minority party from filibustering, ... [Published Wake up America - 2 hours ago]

Entities: Harry Reid, Nuclear, Republican Party (US), Democratic Party (US), Mitch McConnell

First reported 5 hours ago - Updated 5 hours ago - 1 reports

US Senate

McConnell Threatens to Bring Democracy to United States Senate

Harry Reid is making threats (probably, alas, not backed by enough of his perenially self-interested caucus ) to change the rules to stop Senate minorities from denying the president the ability to staff the judicial and executive branches. Mitch McConnell ... [Published Lawyers, Guns & Money - 5 hours ago]

Entities: Mitch McConnell, US Senate, Democracy, Harry Reid, Threat

First reported 6 hours ago - Updated 5 hours ago - 1 reports

Barack Obama

McConnell slams Dems for spending millions on ObamaCare 'P.R. blitz'

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) criticized President Obama for launching a “campaign-style P.R. blitz” to explain the healthcare reform law to the public.“Americans still don’t like the idea of Obamacare. Not because they’re unable to understand, ... [Published The Hill - 6 hours ago]

Entities: Mitch McConnell, Obamacare, Health Care, Barack Obama

First reported 21 hours ago - Updated 5 hours ago - 3 reports

John McCain

Broadside: Did Gomez tell McCain to step down?

(NECN) - Democratic Sen. Brian Joyce and Republican political analyst Karyn Polito, both from Massachusetts, joined Jim Braude to discuss the outcome of the final debate between U.S. Senate candidates Ed Markey and Gabriel Gomez.The panel talked about ... [Published NECN.com - 15 hours ago]

Entities: John McCain, Ed Markey, Jim Braude, Mitch McConnell, Gabriel Gómez

First reported Jun 18 2013 - Updated 9 hours ago - 8 reports

Harry Reid

McConnell Tries to Scare Democrats With Threat of Making Senate Actually Functional

Only in the insane world of the Senate would something like this even be considered a possible tactic. To try to stop an effort to end filibuster on just Presidential nominees Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is threatening to end the filibuster ... [Published Firedoglake - 9 hours ago]

Entities: Mitch McConnell, Threat, Harry Reid

First reported Jun 18 2013 - Updated 11 hours ago - 2 reports

Nuclear option uniting Republicans

Senate Republicans have found an issue to rally around as immigration reform threatens to cleave them: opposition to the Senate Democrats filibuster reform threat.Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has frequently come to the Senate floor in ... [Published Politico - 17 hours ago]

Entities: Republican Party (US), Mitch McConnell, Nuclear, Harry Reid, John D Rockefeller IV

First reported Jun 18 2013 - Updated Jun 18 2013 - 2 reports

McConnell Warns Reid: Change Senate Rules, GOP Will Use YOUR New Rules On Everything When We Take Majority

By Susan Duclos Senate majority leader Harry Reid just had his bluff called by Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell; Use the nuclear option to change Senate rules for Obama nominees and when the GOP takes control of the U.S. Senate, the GOP will ... [Published Wake up America - Jun 18 2013]

Entities: Mitch McConnell, Republican Party (US), Nuclear, Wildlife Refuge, Lamar Alexander

First reported Jun 18 2013 - Updated Jun 18 2013 - 2 reports

McConnell Straight Up Trolls Democrats

Mitch McConnell : You want to go nuclear on filibuster reform -- then look out on Obamacare, Keystone, ANWR and the estate tax. ... [Published Talking Points Memo - Jun 18 2013]

Entities: Mitch McConnell, Obamacare, Nuclear

First reported Jun 18 2013 - Updated Jun 18 2013 - 1 reports

McConnell: Obama is the opponent

LEXINGTON — They call it the Lincoln Day Dinner, but when Kentucky Republicans gathered Saturday night at the Hyatt Regency, it was mostly about Mitch McConnell.Mitch McConnell and Barack Obama.McConnell was the star attraction, and he didn’t disappoint ... [Published Glasgow Daily Times - Jun 18 2013]

Entities: Mitch McConnell, Barack Obama, Hyatt Regency SA, Richard Nixon

First reported Jun 17 2013 - Updated Jun 17 2013 - 1 reports

John David Dyche: McConnell's half-century of hardball politics

The big news at the in the spring of 1963 was the schools strong showing in the College Bowl academic quiz show. Of lesser note, but perhaps more lasting significance, Mitch McConnell was elected president of U of Ls Arts & Sciences student council.The ... [Published Advocate Messenger - Jun 17 2013]

Entities: Mitch McConnell, Democratic Party (US), Civil Rights

First reported Jun 17 2013 - Updated Jun 17 2013 - 2 reports

How Rand Paul Bent the GOP in a More Libertarian Direction

The New Republic has a good new cover profile out of Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky), byJulia Ioffe, treating him as a serious and interesting 2016 GOPWhite House contender, albeit with an ideology "more radical thanthat of any modern presidential candidate." ... [Published REASON Online - Jun 17 2013]

Entities: Rand Paul, Paul Bent, Mitch McConnell, Republican Party (US)

Quotes

"we wanted to lay out the kind of agenda that a senate republican majority might pursue" McConnell told Politico...

Senate GOP United to Oppose Dem Threats to Limit Filibuster [Published NewsMax.com - 2 hours ago]

...you could break the rules of the Senate in order to change the rules for the Senate only for nominations," McConnell told reporters on Tuesday. "there would be a widespread clamor across our conference, where we to be in the majority, to take that precedent and apply it to everything else."

McConnell Sings Very Different Tune On Nuclear Option Than In 2005 [Published Talking Points Memo - 3 hours ago]

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