Al Franken, the junior senator from Minnesota, got into some hot water Thursday with Mitch McConnell, the top Republican in the Senate, who felt the need to remind the former comedian that he’s not on “Saturday Night Live” anymore. The exchange came after McConnell delivered a speech on the Senate floor arguing against Elena Kagan’s [...]
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell is playing down his party’s new scrutiny of the 14th Amendment, which among other things confers U.S. citizenship on anyone born in the United States. McConnell on Thursday portrayed calls for hearings on the amendment as simply an attempt to examine what he calls the “unseemly” business of foreigners showing [...]
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell should take comfort in the fact that he is not up for a sixth term until 2014 because a plurality of Kentucky’s voters disapprove of the job he is doing in representing the state and his role as GOP leader, according to a Public Policy Polling survey conducted June 28-30. [...]
LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas — Does the secret to a November win in Arkansas’ Senate race lie in the Senate Agriculture Committee? Democratic Sen. Blanche Lincoln, who chairs the committee, has campaigned heavily on her agricultural ties in a state where agriculture is the largest industry. Now, Republican challenger Rep. John Boozman seems assured of a [...]
U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) became the first to announce that he will vote against confirming Solicitor General Elena Kagan to become the next justice on the Supreme Court, and minority leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said later Friday that he too would oppose her. Hatch, a senior member of the Judiciary Committee, said Friday morning [...]
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