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...I am going to resist the temptation to sing Mitch McConnell’s praises....
...Johnson has come under mounting pressure to support a package for Ukraine but has stalled on holding a vote on new security funds amid a split in his party between more traditional Republicans such as Mitch...
...The group was the driving force behind the so-called Gingrich Revolution and secured early conservative backing for George W Bush’s presidential aspirations....
...A generation has passed since George W Bush set the US against the “Axis of Evil”. At the time, the moral absolutism of the word “evil” aroused most of the liberal derision....
...So does the fact that the Maga base nowadays demonises Zelenskyy almost as much as it does George Soros. Then there is next year’s presidential election....
...Lucy FisherAnd the FT’s political editor, George Parker. George ParkerHello, Lucy. [MUSIC PLAYING] Lucy FisherSo George, firstly, you kick us off. What’s been your moments of the week?...
...Whereas last time around lawmakers such as Paul Ryan, former Republican Speaker, and Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader in the senate, did not always bend to his wishes, that has changed....
...“I think that McCarthy has taken a relatively weak hand and played it extraordinarily well,” said Doug Holtz-Eakin, a former official in the George W Bush administration who is now president of the American...
...Congress could step in to enforce the contract with legislation — the first such step taken by lawmakers to avert a rail strike since George HW Bush’s presidency in 1992....
...Mitch McConnell, the Senate’s top Republican, accused Democrats on Tuesday of “panicking and revers[ing] themselves”....
...Mitch Eitel, partner, Sullivan & Cromwell A leading M&A banking lawyer, Mitch Eitel saw the need for much greater standardisation when he focused on helping minority-owned financial institutions known as...
...If Congress were to enforce the contract with legislation, it would be the first such step taken by lawmakers to avert a rail strike since George HW Bush’s presidency in 1992....
...Mitch McConnell famously complained about the weakness of his party’s Senate candidates....
...As the party’s Senate prospects wane, Mitch McConnell, the Senate Republican leader, is probably the most frustrated person in Washington....
...Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell could not have been clearer: “My warning to corporate America is to stay out of politics.”...
...This “despicable human being” had “finally discredited himself”, said Mitch McConnell, the Republican Senate leader....
...In 2006, when George W Bush decried the US’s “addiction to oil”, Americans burnt through 20.7mn barrels a day of petroleum. Demand this year will be almost identical, according to federal forecasters....
...But in 2011 it was raised to 32 per cent from 20 per cent by the then Tory chancellor George Osborne to pull in extra revenue as he sought to cash in on high oil prices....
...Mitch McConnell, Republican leader in the Senate, called the appearance “a bizarre and devastating performance” by the president....
...Jimmy Carter, one example of that; George HW Bush — maybe not divisive, but not successful. It was seen in that in terms of domestic politics....
...George HW Bush, then president, was under pressure to fill a court opening with a rib-rock conservative, and he promised that Thomas would be a “home run”....
...For a certain kind of establishment Republican, David McCormick has the perfect CV: a West Point graduate and former Army ranger with a PhD from Princeton, several years in the George W Bush administration...
...When Democrats used the debt ceiling as a weapon against a similarly well-positioned George W Bush in 2006, it was he who suffered. Today it is Biden....
...Jonathan Turley, a professor at the George Washington University Law School, said the speech suggested Breyer might not take kindly to the political campaign calling for his departure....
...“Every business — even if it has a secular challenge — is improving . . . right now,” said Mitch Rubin, chief investment officer at the fund manager RiverPark Capital....
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