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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) joked that he had been “sandbagged” hours after freezing during the start of a weekly Republican leadership press briefing and needing to be guided out of the room. McConnell returned to the press conference a few minutes later, and told reporters that he was …

A spokesperson for John Fetterman has indicated that the Pennsylvania Senator will be returning to Congress after more than a month-long hospitalization to treat clinical depression. Fetterman, who suffered a life threatening stroke shortly before the 2022 midterm elections, has been conducting his business in the senate while an inpatient …

Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the minority leader, was hospitalized on Wednesday following a fall at a Washington, D.C. hotel, a spokesman told USA Today. “This evening, Leader McConnell tripped at a local hotel during a private dinner,” David Popp, the senator’s communications director,told the outlet.“He has been admitted to …

If you come at the most ruthless political operator in recent history, you better not miss. Rick Scott attempted to oust Mitch McConnell as the top Republican in the Senate following last year’s midterm elections. He failed, and now McConnell has yanked Scott from the influential Senate Commerce Committee. Scott …

Recipients of the Congressional Gold Medal didn’t shake hands with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and Republican House Leader Kevin McCarthy, at a ceremony on Tuesday. The medals were bestowed on law enforcement, and the family of deceased police officers, who defended the Capitol from a mob of rioters on …

“I think if [Republicans] win, I should get all the credit,” Donald Trump said in an interview immediately before the midterms. “And if they lose, I should not be blamed at all.” Now that the results are in and Republicans suffered historic losses this election cycle while failing to flip …

Except for what she describes as two “tours” of Washington D.C. — the first as an intern-turned-staffer in Mitch McConnell’s Senate office, and later as a political appointee to George W. Bush’s USDA — Dawn Riley has spent her entire life in Kentucky. She has also always been pro-choice: in …

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Ah, Friday night. Time to kick back, watch a little TV, and casually threaten the Senate Minority Leader on your website. “He has a DEATH WISH,” Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social of Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell, while also adding a racist dig at McConnell’s wife Elaine Chao, who is …

Kyrsten Sinema is a Democrat, technically speaking. The senator from Arizona ran as one four years ago, but since arriving in Washington, she’s shown more interest in thwarting, rather than advancing, the party’s agenda. She’s been a favorite of corporate interests, conservative donors, and, not surprisingly, Senate Minority Leader Mitch …