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McConnell Aide Brags About Lack Of GOP Health Plan

USA Today | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics

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Don Stewart, a spokesman for Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, says the intraparty rift is overblown. He and others point to past criticisms of ...

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Republican Leaders Join In Honoring New Rotunda Statue Of Radical Socialist Woman

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

A woman whose name we all know was a proud Red, a committed Socialist, and an unapologetic Wobbly. And now she's not only buried in the National Cathedral, she's got her own statue in the Capitol.

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GOP Senate Leader Acknowledges He Hasn't Read Full Health Care Bill

The Plum Line | Posted 09.13.2009 | Politics

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Dems are getting ready to jump on GOP Senate leader Mitch McConnell over a local TV report in Kentucky saying that McConnell has acknowledged not read...

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Mitch McConnell: Blocking Sotomayor Still An Option (VIDEO)

AP | Posted 07.15.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell says it's too early to talk about supporting or opposing Sonia Sotomayor. But he says...

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McConnell Warns Dem "Rush" To Confirm Sotomayor Will Have "Consequences"

AP | JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS | Posted 07.11.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — Republicans accused Democrats Wednesday of moving too hastily on Sonia Sotomayor's Supreme Court nomination, warning that the decis...

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McConnell: Specter's Switch A "Threat To The Country" (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 04.28.2009 | Politics

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Mitch McConnell, leader of a Republican minority that is now even smaller, suggested Tuesday that Sen. Arlen Specter's defection endangered not just t...

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McConnell Can't Offer GOP Budget Plan: Too "Down In The Weeds"

Think Progress | Posted 04.15.2009 | Politics

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Since President Obama unveiled his budget last month, Republicans have been relentlessly attacking his comprehensive proposals. Last week, Rep. Eric C...

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Mitch McConnell: 'No One Wants Obama To Fail'

Bloomberg | Posted 04.11.2009 | Politics

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Mitch McConnell, the most powerful Republican in the U.S. Senate, has so far had one word for President Barack Obama's agenda: No. ... "No one wants...

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Summers Slams Mitch McConnell For 'History Lecture'

AP/Politico | Posted 03.11.2009 | Politics

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One of the top economic advisers to President Barack Obama is warning that the U.S. economy is in the worst shape that most economists have ever exper...

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Will Republican "Moderates" Allow Themselves to be Used by the Right to the Gut Obama Jobs Program?

Robert Creamer | Posted 03.01.2009 | Politics

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Senators Collins, Snowe and Gregg all represent areas that have been hard hit by the recession. Will they prove themselves true "moderates" who represent the interests of New England's working families?

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Sam Stein

Senate GOP Assumes Franken Beat Coleman

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 02.14.2009 | Politics

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Republican leadership in the Senate has agreed to a plan for committee assignments that assumes Al Franken will emerge as the winner of the Minnesota ...

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Israel in Gaza: Three Wrong Arguments

Howard Schweber | Posted 02.10.2009 | Politics

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Howard Schweber

The Reid/McConnell resolution is a perfect articulation of one voice in the American debate over Israel's actions in Gaza. Here are a few objections that should be raised.

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Ky Dems Look to "Ditch Mitch" in Clean Sweep of Incumbent GOP

Gail McGowan Mellor | Posted 11.21.2008 | Home

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Voters on November 4, 2008, will be genuine Deciders, using the election not only to select a president but to clean house--to clear a path by gettin...

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The World's Greatest Deliberative Body?

Carl Pope | Posted 06.13.2008 | Politics

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The Senate is supposed to be debating global warming, but Mitch McConnell, refused to allow the Senate to debate the 491-page bill, demanding instead that the clerk READ IT OUT LOUD

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Sam Stein

Schumer Takes Aim At Senate's Top Republican

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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Reflecting an increasingly aggressive strategy for the 2008 election cycle, Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-NY, acknowledged on Wednesday that the Democrats are...

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