Tag: Mitch McConnell

Top US Senate Republican Mitch McConnell said Friday he was “hopeful and optimistic” about a possible deal to avert the fiscal cliff after a meeting with President Barack Obama and senior lawmakers.

Top US Senate Republican Mitch McConnell said he will meet President Barack Obama on Friday at the White House, amid a tense stand-off over how to avoid the so-called “fiscal cliff.”

The office of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) responded to reports today that President Barack Obama called him and other congressional leaders to receive updates about negotiations to avoid the Jan. 1 “fiscal cliff” by noting that it was

Speaker of the House Boehner is now the least popular member of congressional leadership, according to a new Rasmussen Reports poll. Boehner clocks in with 51 percent of voters disapproving of his performance. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has held

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, the upper congressional chamber’s top Republican, wouldn’t throw his weight behind House Speaker John Boehner’s most recent fiscal cliff plan on Tuesday. McConnell told Breitbart News’ Kerry Picket that he’d rather not raise taxes on

Instead of negotiating with Congressional leaders to avert the fiscal cliff, President Barack Obama visited a Northern Virginia family for a photo op on Thursday and reiterated that he would not sign any deal that did not raise taxes on

On Thursday, Senate Majority Leader Reid (D-NV) objected to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) proposal to take up President Barack Obama’s request to have the unprecedented power to raise the debt ceiling without getting approval from Congress.  McConnell made

The White House on Monday issued an attack on the counter-offer from House Republicans on debt talks, saying it failed to “meet the test of balance.”  Whoa. Obama wants to increase taxes $1.6 trillion, will not countenance any suggestion of

President Obama is making a mockery of the seriousness of our spending and debt problems with his role in the fiscal cliff negotiations. There had been talk earlier in the week of a deal involving $1.2 trillion in tax increases

Today, Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner visited with Senate Republicans including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), where he proposed $1.6 trillion in tax increases, a one-year delay in scheduled $1.2 trillion cuts to defense and domestic spending (which would only give Obama

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) took to the floor of the Senate today to slam President Obama for his kowtowing to the radical left on tax policy ahead of the much-dreaded fiscal cliff. McConnell said that talks have now

Today, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said that President Obama can talk all he wants about raising taxes, but he hasn’t presented any deficit reduction plans. At all. On the floor of the Senate, McConnell announced that slogans and

With conservatives across the country concerned about a rumored Republican cave-in in Washington, D.C. over tax policy, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is speaking out. Read his lips: no tax hikes. McConnell said in an exclusive statement to Breitbart

The Obama campaign has finally released the transcript of his endorsement interview with the Des Moines Register–and it is clear why they were reluctant to do so: the President says he has “absolutely” no regrets about ignoring the economy during

Back in December 2010, two full years into Barack Obama’s presidency, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) remarked, “Our top political priority over the next two years should be to deny President Obama a second term.” He was speaking after

Democrats are set to adjourn the Senate after three years of not passing a budget and with no plans to avert a fiscal cliff. And on the 1,240th day since Senate Democrats adopted a budget, Republican leaders in the Senate

This afternoon, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) released a statement about Republican Senate candidate Rep. Todd Akin, who is facing incumbent Democrat Claire McCaskill in Missouri: “Congressman Akin made a deeply offensive error at a time when his candidacy

I sat down recently with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell to discuss the first amendment and free speech issues during the 2012 campaign.  He had plenty to say on campaign finance disclosure, enemies lists and the left’s fight to shut