Mitch McConnell

Progress on immigration

2013-05-22 10:35:00

Just when Washington looked like it was completely preoccupied with the scandals, real and imaginary, swirling around the White House, a group of Democrats and Republicans in the Senate managed the unexpected (and, these days, extraordinary): They...

GOP can't help overreaching on Obama scandals

2013-05-20 08:54:00

Well, that didn't take long. Just as several genuine scandals cast the Obama administration in an unfavorable light, Republicans in Congress are already overreaching — with hyperbolic comparisons to Watergate, calls for special prosecutors,...

Perez vote delayed as confirmation fight intensifies

2013-05-08 14:52:00

WASHINGTON -- A Senate committee vote on Labor Secretary nominee Tom Perez was postponed hours before it was set to take place Wednesday, highlighting what appears to be a growing partisan fight over the confirmation of the former Maryland official.�...

Shame on the Senate; send 'em all home

2013-04-19 00:00:00

Let me begin this column with an apology. Once a week, I pick an important issue and offer my reasoned analysis, based on the facts, of what it all means and how we should react. But there are times when the intellect fails and the heart and gut take...

Obama's budget: A put up or shut up moment for the GOP

2013-04-10 11:41:00

It's facile to say that if the extreme right and left of American politics dislike something, it must be a good idea, but in the case of President Barack Obama's budget proposal, it may be true. The president is taking one more stab at a "grand bargain"...

Bad luck for Mitch McConnell: Ashley Judd bows out

2013-04-02 03:00:00

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell will not be facing a challenge from actress Ashley Judd when he runs for re-election next year. Though he may be happy to have avoided the physical comparison -- she, after all, played Marilyn Monroe in a movie,...

Wrong to blame GOP for showdown

2013-02-25 05:15:00

What a joke your editorial regarding pending federal budget cuts is ("The GOP sequester," Feb. 22). Do you not research information anymore, or do you just call up some liberal Democrats for advice? Maybe you're just blind and believe anything that...

Obama plays his high cards

2012-12-07 00:00:00

As President Barack Obama nears the end of his first term, has he finally found an inner LBJ to channel? His recent words and actions suggest he has turned a corner from his earlier wishful thinking about playing nice with obstruction-minded Republicans...

Why annihilate the GOP?

2013-02-01 00:00:00

Still reeling from the Republican defeat in the 2012 presidential election, House Speaker John Boehner warned in a Ripon Society speech the other day that the re-elected Obama administration is now out to kill off their party. The embattled speaker...

Missed chance to fix the filibuster

2013-01-24 13:17:33

The best chance to get the U.S. Senate to do its job is not to withhold pay (although withholding campaign contributions might have done the trick) but to reform the Senate rules so that filibusters aren't used so routinely to gum up the works. Majority...

Ending filibuster abuse

2012-12-11 11:18:00

The announcement last week that South Carolina's Jim DeMint is leaving his Senate seat to run the Heritage Foundation caused some in Washington to wishfully think that perhaps the move might usher in a more congenial, if not cooperative, outlook in the U....

Don't count Biden out in 2016

2013-01-28 10:19:00

As the second Obama term gets underway, much is being said and written about the president finally emerging as a tougher, stronger Democrat in the liberal mold of past party greats. His second inaugural address pressed Republicans in Congress to accept...

The president and congressional leaders gather at the unveiling of a statue of civil rights activist Rosa Parks: from left, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-KY; Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-NV; President Obama; House Speaker John Boehner, R-OH; and House Minority Leader Nancy

2013-02-28 09:17:00

Senate Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) speaks about the debt ceiling on Jan. 23 in Washington, D.C. On Thursday, Reid struck a compromise with his GOP counterpart, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, to limit filibusters.

2013-01-24 17:03:13

Senate Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) speaks about the debt ceiling on Jan. 23 in Washington, D.C. On Thursday, Reid struck a compromise with his GOP counterpart, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, to limit filibusters.

2013-01-24 17:03:13