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...Mitch McConnell, the Senate’s top Republican, accused Democrats on Tuesday of “panicking and revers[ing] themselves”....
...“There is no chance Republicans will help lift Democrats’ credit limit so they can immediately steamroller through a socialist binge that will hurt families and help China,” McConnell said....
...Biden, however, leveraged the support of key Republicans, including Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell, to prevail in a polarised system....
...As Mitch McConnell reminded Democrats again and again during his five years as Senate majority leader: holding a congressional majority is the only currency that really matters in Washington....
...Ms Pelosi, Mitch McConnell, Senate majority leader, and other congressional leaders were taken to a secure location earlier on Wednesday....
...On Monday my former colleague Chrystia Freeland, deputy prime minister of Canada, unveiled C$100bn (about $78bn) of new fiscal ammunition to help the country’s post-pandemic recovery....
...As a life-long moderate Democrat, Mr Biden’s philosophy is assumed to be conservative with a small “c”, added to progressive with a small “p”. But politics is all about circumstance....
...“Big protest in D.C. on January 6,” Donald Trump wrote on Twitter on December 19, one of several posts advertising the event. “Be there, will be wild!”...
...But Mitch McConnell, the Republican Senate majority leader, has not yet put it to a vote....
...While Mitch McConnell, the Senate’s top Republican, has said he will not take up the bill, and President Donald Trump has insisted DC will “never” be a state, Ms Holmes Norton — with an eye towards November...
...Because I’ve tested more things than anybody — the constitution, democratic norms, Mitch McConnell’s self-respect, evangelical voters’ moral consistency . . ....
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...Mitch McConnell, the US Senate majority leader, has called off much of the Senate’s traditional August break, claiming that Democrats’ “historic obstruction” compelled him to keep senators in Washington...
...Mr McConnell indicated this week that were Mr Moore to win, Republican senators would immediately begin the process of expelling him from the Senate....
...“Today’s vote to begin debate is the first step, and we should take it,” Mr McConnell said on the Senate floor. Chuck Schumer, the top Senate Democrat, called the Republican strategy a “ruse”....
...Mr McConnell can only afford to lose two Republican votes in the Senate where his party has only a thin 52-48 majority....
...Steven Mnuchin, the US Treasury secretary, has exhorted Congress to act on the debt limit before then, as has Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader....
...Mr McConnell’s hopes of getting the minimum number of votes to pass healthcare reforms are now more slender....
...Imelda McConnell, a retired civil servant, said Washington’s ruling marked the moment in which Donald Trump’s America First policy came to Belfast....
...most people believed had been sacked from the White House in August (despite official claims that he “resigned”), would disrupt Republican plans for the mid term elections in 2018 by ousting many of Mitch McConnell...
...Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader, likewise rejected Democratic calls for an outside counsel or special congressional panel, saying on Wednesday that any new probe “could only serve to impede the...
...“I think we could do with a little less drama from the White House on a lot of things,” Mr McConnell said this week....
...Rohit Kumar, a former aide to Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell who is now at PwC, said: “I don’t think the vagueness or lack of specificity on border adjustment was an accident....
...“The courts are going to determine whether this is too broad,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Sunday. Why has the president done this?...
...A Republican source says Mr McConnell did not want to use this “nuclear option”, which can work in the short term but come back to haunt the party later....
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