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Mitch McConnell visits Kyiv with delegation of Republican US senators
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The US Senate minority leader, Mitch McConnell, has joined the growing list of US politicians making visits to Kyiv, it emerged on Saturday Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy welcomed McConnell’s visit as a power...
McConnell will ‘make Biden a moderate’ if Republicans retake Congress
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The Senate minority leader, Mitch McConnell, said on Sunday Republicans will force Joe Biden to govern as a “moderate” if the GOP retakes Congress in November. Speaking to Fox News Sunday, McConnell attacked Biden on ...
Mitch McConnell: Republicans who support Putin ‘lonely voices’ in party
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Republicans who support Vladimir Putin over the Russian invasion of Ukraine are “lonely voices” in the party, Mitch McConnell said. But the Senate minority leader dodged an invitation to say such Republicans should be...
This time McConnell holds few cards to stop Biden’s supreme court pick
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The photograph is a study in contrasts. On the left, standing stiffly and staring glumly, is Mitch McConnell, 80, the Republican minority leader in the Senate accused of committing professional fouls when confronting ...
Mitch McConnell rebukes RNC for censuring party members investigating ‘violent insurrection’
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Mitch McConnell criticized the Republican National Committee for censuring Representatives Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger over their work for the House select committee investigating the January 6 attack on the Capitol...
Mitch McConnell under fire after saying African Americans vote as much as ‘Americans’ - video
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Top Senate Republican Mitch McConnell has been criticised after saying that Black Americans vote 'in just as high a percentage as Americans'. The comment came after Senate Democrats failed to pass voting rights protec...
Make up with Trump or be a failure, Republican colleague warns McConnell
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Mitch McConnell has been attacked by a key Trump ally and told to repair his relationship with the former US president or face failure as Senate Republican leader. The move by Lindsey Graham comes amid a rumbling dis...
‘Incoherent, incorrect’: McConnell dismisses Biden’s push for US voting rights bill
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Top Republican senator Mitch McConnell has attacked Joe Biden’s push for a voting rights bill, underscoring the difficulty the Democrats face attempting to steer legislation through Congress with a narrow majority. Th ...
Schumer ‘poisoned the well’ over debt limit, McConnell says in insult-laden letter
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Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader in the Senate, sought to fight his way out of a corner on Friday by releasing an angry letter in which he blamed Democrats for the impasse over the debt ceiling he broke by endin...
The cynical attack on Stonewall is a reminder of the need to stand up for trans rights
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While we endure life under this chaotic and cynical government, we can at least rely on liberal and progressive journalists to scrutinise and challenge it. But one line of attack in the Tories’ culture war not only ge...
McConnell: ‘Highly unlikely’ I would let Biden fill supreme court seat in 2024
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The Senate minority leader, Mitch McConnell, said on Monday it was “highly unlikely” he would allow Joe Biden to fill a supreme court vacancy arising in 2024, the year of the next presidential election, if Republicans...
How Mitch McConnell killed the US Capitol attack commission
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Days before the Senate voted down the creation of a 9/11-style commission to investigate the Capitol attack, the Senate Republican leader, Mitch McConnell, was adamant: he would oppose the bill, regardless of any amen...
McConnell sê uitvoerende hoofde wat krities is oor stembeperkings om 'buite die politiek te bly'
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Republikeine se posisie as die party van die korporatiewe Amerika blyk bedreig te word ná Mitch McConnell, die minderheidsleier in die Senaat, het aan uitvoerende hoofde wat kritiek op die stembeperkings gesê het, gesê om "buite die politiek te bly ...
The McConnell filibuster is not the same as the Jim Crow filibuster – it’s much worse
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President Obama chooses his words carefully. So last July, when he punctuated his eulogy to the civil rights legend John Lewis by calling the Senate filibuster “another relic of Jim Crow”, he wasn’t messing around. Ma...
Senate filibuster reform would produce ‘nuclear winter’, says Mitch McConnell
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Mitch McConnell, who was accused of laying waste to bipartisan co-operation in the Senate when he blocked a supreme court pick by Barack Obama then changed the rules to hurry through three picks for Donald Trump, het ...