Today, Breitbart News spoke with Senator Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s office about the upcoming continuing resolution to fund government services. “Leader McConnell will support the longest continuing resolution the Republican-led House can pass and is optimistic we’ll have one for
On Wednesday, Senate Democrats voted against an extension of the Bush tax cuts. The Republican proposal failed by a 45-54 vote. Instead, Democrats ended up passing a tax increase on incomes above $250,000. The vote passed 51-48, mostly along party
Today, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) called Democrats’ bluff on the 2013 tax cliff. Speaking on the Senate floor, McConnell announced that Republicans will allow a 50-vote threshold on Democratic proposals for renewing the Bush tax rates. Democrats have
Some of the Senate Democrats running for reelection are torn because they don’t know if they can afford to back Barack Obama’s new plan to raise taxes on those making more than $250,000. Obama had originally favored letting the Bush
Can the US Senate act in time to prevent the United States from ratifying the Obama-favored United Nations International Maritime Treaty? The treaty will fail if 34 votes can be mustered against it, as a two-thirds majority is required for
Harry Reid today compared America’s job creators to Paris Hilton and claimed they “do nothing.” Republicans, eager to put Senate Democrats on record on taxes, tried to force a vote Wednesday on President Obama’s proposal to extend middle-class tax cuts
We Conservatives keep playing by “nice guy” rules and still get screwed. We all recognize how John McCain blew it in 2008 by refusing to criticize Obama for: His 20-year history of close ties with people who hate America and say so. His
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell appears to be waving the white flag on repealing Obamacare. The Tea Party is ready to fight. The Republican National Committee appears to be ready to fight. But the day after the Romney campaign backed
(AP) ELIZABETHTOWN, Ky.It’s on his to-do list, but U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell says the odds are against repealing the health care law championed by President Barack Obama. The Kentucky Republican said Monday it’s hard to unravel something of the
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AP-Mitch McConnell, the Senate’s minority leader, says the president’s health care law is making life harder for Americans, and has yet to solve any of the problems it was designed to tackle. (June 28)
At a press conference with Secretary of Education Arne Duncan on Thursday, President Barack Obama, again playing election year politics as he has done with immigration, accused Republicans of “playing chicken” with student loans and said, “It’s mind-boggling that we’ve
National Journal, which purports to be a non-partisan publication, headlines a piece decrying national security leaks by the Obama Administration this way: “Insiders Say Leaks Will Affect U.S. Foreign Policy–But Only a Little.” It’s not surprising the Journal downplays the damage
Tomorrow, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) will speak at American Enterprise Institute, where he is scheduled to talk about anti-First Amendment intimidation by the Obama Administration and by the political left associated with it. Sen. McConnell has long been
According to the liberal Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz, President Obama met yesterday with “about 20 Conservative Jewish community leaders.” At that meeting, Ha’aretz reports, Obama “stressed he probably knows about Judaism more than any other president, because he read about it.”
American Enterprise Institute President Arthur Brooks has released The Road To Freedom, a book which urges Republicans to make the case for free enterprise in moral terms. In a series of videos exclusively released to Breitbart News, Brooks makes effective one-minute
WASHINGTON, May 21 (UPI) —President Barack Obama “needs to become the adult” on the U.S. debt, said Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and he needs to lead, said House Speaker John Boehner. The Senate Republican leader and House speaker intensified their
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell says the debt and deficit problem requires the president to be more adult.
Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), is the Senate Minority Leader. Breitbart News had the opportunity to discuss Sen. McConnell’s view of the new media and how it has impacted the culture of DC last week. Here is the transcript: Q: Sen.
Yesterday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell appeared on The Laura Ingraham Show and ripped into CNN contributor, radio talk show host, and RedState.com editor Erick Erickson. Erickson has been a consistent critic of McConnell’s; he recently stated in Roll Call that McConnell is
Today, Senate Republicans hired Miguel Estrada, the 2002 judicial nominee for the DC Circuit Court of Appeals filibustered by Senate Democrats, to press a lawsuit against the Obama administration. The lawsuit itself is based on President Obama’s non-recess “recess appointment”
Catalina Island, which lies 22 miles south-southwest of Los Angeles, now has gas prices averaging over $7 a gallon. People there aren’t panicking, since most of the natives and the one million visitors annually either walk or use electric golf
The United States said it will ease restrictions on investment to Myanmar and quickly appoint an ambassador as it seeks to boost reformers who allowed landmark elections in the long-closed nation. In its latest gestures under a three-year diplomatic drive
President Obama’s allies vote down the Keystone amendment. On Thursday, President Obama’s Senate Allies killed off amendment added to the highway bill that would have fast tracked the Keystone XL Pipeline. President Obama was reported have made phone calls to
A recent investigation by the Daily Caller has revealed that the Service International Employees Union–the fastest growing labor union in the United States, which spent $28 million in supporting Barack Obama get elected–have created a covert network of community organizing
At the same time hacker group Anonymous was hacking Stratfor Global Intelligence and now a second veterans’ owned website which sells military-inspired merchandise, giving part of their proceeds to charity, they were also circulating what they call “a snapshot of
