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Taking aim at Wall Street and the U.S. central bank, an important House committee voted Thursday to assess fees on large financial firms to pay for the failure of their peers and to require a sweeping congressional audit of the secretive Federal Reserve.
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell says that if President Obama asks for more troops in Afghanistan to fulfill a request by commanders there, he expects Republicans to support the action.
Sen. John Ensign said Tuesday that he will not resign, even as a watchdog group raised questions about whether he improperly tried to appease his mistress' husband with a lobbying job and made phone calls on behalf of the man's clients.
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said Sunday the committee preparing for hearings for Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor needs time to review 300 boxes of records that recently turned up in connection with her work for a legal advocacy group.
Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor resigned Friday from an elite all-women's club after Republicans questioned her participation in it. Sotomayor said she resigned from the Belizean Grove to prevent the issue from becoming a distraction in her confirmation hearings.
U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell still won't say if he will endorse his fellow Republican senator from Kentucky.
Embattled GOP Sen. Jim Bunning said Tuesday he'll reconsider running for a third term if he doesn't meet his fundraising goals.
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said Sunday the massive stimulus bill backed by President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats could go down to defeat if it's not stripped of unnecessary spending and focused more on housing issues and tax cut.
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell is talking to Connecticut independent Sen. Joe Lieberman about the possibility of Lieberman caucusing with the GOP.
Sen. Mitch McConnell says he doesn't expect any challenge to his position as Senate minority leader following GOP losses in Tuesday's election.
Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell told hundreds of supporters Saturday night that Kentucky would take a "massive step backward" if he is ousted from the Senate, as the incumbent touted his seniority and leadership status in making his case for a fifth term.
Frantically trying to stop the bleeding on Wall Street, the Federal Reserve took a first-time step Tuesday to get cash directly to businesses and hinted that interest rates could come down soon. Stocks continued their free fall anyway and hit new five-year lows.
In a surprise move to resurrect President Bush's $700 billion Wall Street rescue plan, Senate leaders slated a vote on the measure for Wednesday — but added a tax cut plan already rejected by the House. Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and GOP Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky unveiled the plan Tuesday.
Sonny Landham carved out a tough-guy reputation in a series of big-screen roles, from roughing up Sylvester Stallone to getting tossed out a window by Carl Weathers. He pulls no punches in his newest role: Libertarian challenger to a man known for political toughness, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.
For someone accustomed to being a political aggressor, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has a bull's eye on his back at the beginning of what may be his toughest re-election campaign in years.
As soldiers in Myanmar killed and hunted down Buddhist monks and pro-democracy demonstrators, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell stood up on the Senate floor day after day to berate the country's ruling generals and cheer the dissidents' courage.
Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell was conspicuous by his absence when key Republicans met with White House officials last week on how to limit party defections on Iraq.
A liberal group advocating the withdrawal of troops from Iraq will begin airing an ad Wednesday in Kentucky that criticizes Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell for supporting President Bush's war policies.
Democrats may be in charge of the Senate these days, yet Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is no powerless bystander.
GOP Needs Six Weeks To Debate Health Care Bill That All Republicans Will OpposeSenate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) argued last Sunday that Republicans deserve at least six additional weeks to consider health care reform before letting the bill come to a vote.
Epic health-care reform battle in Senate Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) has released his massive health-care bill, a 2000-plus-page "amendment in nature of a substitute." It now faces a procedural vote, possibly this Saturday, before debate can begin.
Administration Lowers Bar for Success in Afghanistan War, Seeks Exit Strategy. by FOXNews.com November 15, 2009 Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says the administration has 'no illusions' about the Afghanistan war. Officials say the administration wants to make sure the U.S. commitment in the country is not 'open-ended' as the president drafts a new strategy.
Immigration bill returns to Senate floorThe Senate resurrected the immigration bill that could legalize millions of unlawful immigrants Tuesday, but the delicate compromise faces the same threats that derailed it earlier this month.[!]
OK, this may be the way they do it across the pond and Frank Zappa would have reminded us that "it can't happen here" -- but maybe it should.
DeMint Defiantly Leads GOP Delegation To Meet With Illegitimate Honduran Post-Coup Governmentexcerpt: ""Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) has announced that he will be visiting Honduras today to meet with the de facto regime of acting Honduran President Roberto Micheletti in sheer defiance of the position taken by the US government and international community.
Will the media ever report about how low in the polling Republicans have sunk?Mitch McConnell is polling at an 18% approval rating. That's eighteen percent. John Boehner is polling at 12% approval rating. Just think about that one. And it doesn't take much to make him cry.
U.S. Senator McConnell, U.S. Congressman Chandler Push to Destroy Chemical Weapons in Kentucky on Time The Blue Grass Army Depot in Madison County, Kentucky where many U.S. chemical weapons are stored was visited on August 25, 2009 by U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell and U.S. Rep. Ben Chandler, along with reporters.
With a Colleague's Book Due Out, Ex-Bushies Play Out the Ritual of AnxietyThere's a growing nervousness these days among former Bush White House officials, Pentagon folks and some senators about what, precisely, is in a book coming out in September by Matt Latimer, former speechwriter to George W.
Reality Check on Shona Holmes: Holmes' "Brain Tumour" was Actually a Rathke's Cleft Cyst on Her Pituitary Glandexcerpt: ""Well what do you know. It looks like there may be some problems with Sen. Mitch McConnell's favorite Canadian health care horror story. h/t The Political Carnival 33.7 million Canadians are not Shona Holmes:
The Republican 10 Point Plan for Health Careexcerpt: ""the Republican plan as in 1993 is to stop health care reform at all costs to prevent an enduring Democratic majority.
Sen. Ensign won't resign, will seek re-electionRepublican Sen. John Ensign says he has no plans to resign despite his affair with a staffer's wife and his parents' $96,000 payout to the woman's family, and will seek re-election in 2012.
Jindal and the 'Racist' - Page 1 - The Daily BeastI have been reading about this GOP woman, but I had no idea that the party "seems" to think it's OK. I really don't think there is anything to add. Maybe it is time to find out WHY the leaders of the party think this is OK.
Ever wonder why Republicans aren't holding live town halls on health care? You hear leading Republicans say that the U.S. has the best health care system in the world. They say that at press conferences. They say that during interviews on cable news networks. They say that to the Washington Press Corps.
Republicans vs Sotomayor: The Fight That Wasn'tIf there was any question of whether Republicans had given up on the idea of turning the nomination of judge Sonia Sotomayor into a major political fight, the events of the past 24 hours have effectively erased those doubts.
Republican: Sotomayor records need more timeSenate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said Sunday the committee preparing for hearings for Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor needs time to review 300 boxes of records.
Ranking Republican LeadersThe tectonic plates of Republican politics are shifting steadily these days. And so... presenting the race for leadership in the GOP!
Mitch McConnell wants right wingers to keep up attacks on Sotomayorexcerpt:b ""Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) and the supposedly tough job he has of reining in all those right wing lunatics who have been viciously attacking Sotomayor: As a member of the Judiciary Committee and the senator responsible for winning Republican Senate races next year, …
No Patty-Cake, Please. By Quin Hillyer. 5.29.09 @ 6:10AMAlready, Judge Sotomayor's unfitness for the high court is abundantly manifest.
Another Divide: GOP Strategists (Unlike Elected Officials) Start Publicly Criticizing Cheneyexcerpt: "" Little by little, more Republican strategists are going public with the observation that Dick Cheney's high profile attacks on Obama risk doing real long-term damage to the GOP and plays into the Dem argument that the GOP is trapped in the past.
Boehner, McConnell Cheer Cheney's Public Activismexcerpt: ""On Sunday, the top Republicans in both the House and the Senate affirmed that they were pleased with former Vice President Dick Cheney for taking an active and combative public role just months after stepping down from office. John Boehner and Mitch McConnell, the Ho …
Is the Republican Party fulfilling the role of the loyal opposition or acting the part of the spiteful obstructionist? Things looked encouraging right after the election last November. In his gracious concession speech, Senator John McCain said to his supporters:
Rasmussen Reports: Republican's See Their Party as Leaderless, Democrats Know Whose In ChargeWho's in charge here? Sixty-eight percent (68%) of Republican voters say their party has no clear leader, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. Another 17% are undecided.
Most politicians have politically crafted smiles appropriate for every situation. But President Obama infectious smile seems to be genuine.
You Won't Believe Your Eyes: Despite Anti-Earmark Fervor and Economic Crisis, Proposed Budget Would Fund Thousands of Pork ProjectsLast year, earmarks were treated like the Bubonic Plague, this year earmarks are "what we do."
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