Only six months into the job, Senate Majority Leader John Thune faces a massive challenge as he tries to quickly pass ...

Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) receives a standing ovation as he stands at the podium to give a ... (Morris’ now-apocryphal “American Trash” still has a page on Target.com). Jennings, a Dawson ...

Between fiscal hawks, defenders of Medicaid and a potential stumbling block that may surprise you, this will be the first ...

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As a share of gross domestic product, it now stands at about 3 percent -- less than half the Cold War average -- Senator Mitch McConnell (Republican-Kentucky) noted at the conference. Compounding ...

Mitch McConnell leaves office next year ... And there are members of that committee who still chafe at the notion they've been on the committee for a long time and (have) yet to be the leader." ...

WASHINGTON — Mitch McConnell, the longest-serving Senate ... in prepared remarks obtained by The Associated Press. “So I stand before you today ... to say that this will be my last term ...

Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell at a campaign rally in 2019. (Susan Walsh/Associated Press) Sen. Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) called former President Donald Trump a “despicable human being,” in ...

Republican Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell announced he will not seek reelection Thursday. McConnell, 83, led the Senate Republican conference for nearly two decades until he stepped down from his ...

Mitch McConnell announced on Thursday that ... often isolationist populism espoused by Trump. McConnell still champions providing Ukraine with weapons and other aid to fend off Russia's invasion ...