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By Roger Alford
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell has $4.25 million for a re-election campaign that's still nearly three years away, a signal to potential Democratic challengers they'd likely enter the race at a distinct financial disadvantage.
McConnell Chief of Staff Josh...
Politico - By: John Bresnahan and Manu Raju
This is one story that Sen. Chuck Schumer would rather keep inside the family circle.
Robert Schumer, younger brother of the garrulous New York Democrat, gave $1,000 to Sen. Mitch McConnell’s (R-Ky.) reelection committee last fall, according to Federal Election...
Roll Call Politics
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell lent his expertise to a Kentucky agriculture commissioner candidate, James Comer, who won the statewide office Tuesday night.
James Comer became the most unusual kind of Kentucky Republican on Tuesday night: a winner.
The...
Kentucky Politics
FLORENCE— A divided government can best solve tough challenges, Sen. Mitch McConnell told the Florence Rotary Club Monday.
McConnell, R-Ky., the U.S. Senate minority leader, spoke at the luncheon held in the Hilton on Turfway and told the Rotarians the 2010...
The Gleaner
WINCHESTER, Ky. (AP) — Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell called Monday for “significant entitlement reform” to help rein in federal spending in his first town hall meeting with home-state constituents since a deal was reached on the debt ceiling just over a week...
Huffington Post
WASHINGTON -- If you haven't noticed, this is Mitch McConnell's moment. And if you haven't realized it, this won't be the last. In fact, there will be many more, especially if -- as is quite possible -- he becomes Republican majority leader of the Senate after...
Kentucky.com
WASHINGTON — On the surface, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell maintained a veneer of glacial calm, but inside he was fuming.
"Am I right in assuming that what I'm looking at is a $2 billion cut to next year's spending and the rest is caps?" McConnell asked...
WPSD Local 6
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday accepted the All Rise Leadership Award from the National Association of Drug Court Professionals. The award is given to Members of Congress who exhibit a commitment to combating drug related crime and...
The Washington Post
At the end of last week, with the country barreling toward financial default and the governing apparatus at a loss about how to respond, the crisis seemed to demand the involvement of someone with the personal gravitas, political acumen and institutional leverage to move...
Daily News
While the Bowling Green Board of Commissioners didn’t pass a resolution asking the Department of Justice to move the trial of two suspected terrorists, U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., continued his efforts Tuesday.
McConnell, the Senate minority leader, sent a...
The Atlantic
IF YOU WERE to look for the very last moment when the Democrats might have avoided, or at least mitigated, the wave that swept over them in November, it may have come on Tuesday, September 14, just after lunchtime. That’s when Mitch McConnell, the Republican Senate...
