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...Guests include boxer Amir Khan, Paralympian Mark Ormrod and TV presenter and trans campaigner Freddy McConnell. bbc.co.uk...
...Mitch McConnell has said that publicly. But you know, Kevin McCarthy, the Republican minority leader for now, who could potentially become the House speaker very soon....
...Republicans were similarly scathing, with Mitch McConnell, the party’s leader in the Senate, calling the move “student loan socialism”....
...And today, the far left will get the Supreme Court justice they wanted,” McConnell said....
...Other votes against the motion came from Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins, two moderate Republican senators....
...: John Barrasso, Roy Blunt, Richard Burr, Shelley Moore Capito, Susan Collins, John Cornyn, Joni Ernst, Lisa Murkowski, Rob Portman, Mitt Romney, John Thune, Thom Tillis and Roger Wicker....
...Even Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader in the Senate, who shepherded the nominations of the three Trump-appointed justices through confirmation to the court, would not weigh in on the merits of the...
...Three Republicans — Lindsey Graham, Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski — voted with all of the Democrats last year to confirm Jackson to the appeals court....
...McConnell on Thursday urged Biden to pick “a nominee with demonstrated reverence for the written text of our laws and our Constitution”....
...The Senate could have tried harder to ram through former president Barack Obama’s selection to replace Scalia, Merrick Garland, who was blocked by Republican Mitch McConnell....
...Mitch McConnell, the Senate’s top Republican, called it a “bonanza for blue-state millionaires and billionaires”....
...The six Republicans to support the measure were Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Susan Collins of Maine, Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, Ben Sasse of Nebraska, Mitt Romney of Utah, and Rob Portman of Ohio, who joined...
...Mr McConnell’s comments came two days after a bipartisan group of senators led by Democrat Mark Warner of Virginia and Republican Susan Collins of Maine unveiled a $908bn Covid-19 relief bill that would...
...Several of his Republican colleagues, from Lindsey Graham in South Carolina and Joni Ernst in Iowa to Susan Collins in Maine, also staved off Democratic challengers with big campaign war chests....
...There were signs of a backlash against the seven Republicans — Richard Burr of North Carolina, Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, Maine’s Susan Collins, Alaska’s Lisa Murkowski, Mitt Romney of Utah, Ben Sasse of...
...Five Republican senators voted against Mr Paul’s motion: Susan Collins of Maine; Lisa Murkowski of Alaska; Mitt Romney of Utah; Ben Sasse of Nebraska; and Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania....
...Susan Collins on Monday became the fourth Republican senator to congratulate Mr Biden just days after winning her own tight re-election battle, the senator from Maine has been among the minority in her party...
...McConnell’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment....
...The group includes Democrats Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Arizona’s Kyrsten Sinema, as well as Republicans Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Maine’s Susan Collins....
...“You wrote that Susan Collins is ‘the worst’, that Tom Cotton is a fraud, that vampires have more heart than Ted Cruz, you called leader McConnell ‘Moscow Mitch’ and Voldemort,” Rob Portman, the Republican...
...The Republican grandee Mitch McConnell, after voting with Trump, hinted that his troubles are not quite over. “We have a criminal justice system in this country,” he said, in his gnomic way....
...On the Republican side, Susan Collins, the Republican senator from Maine, and Mitt Romney, from Utah, voted against Ms Shelton’s nomination....
...The likeliest candidates are Susan Collins, the re-elected senator from Maine, and Lisa Murkowski from Alaska....
...But other Republican moderates, including Maine’s Susan Collins and Utah’s Mitt Romney, expressed scepticism....
...Earlier on Wednesday, Mr McConnell tweeted: “I hope Democrats will finally let us get a bipartisan outcome soon.”...
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