I ’m avoiding getting too high on the good days and too low on the bad days,” Mitch McConnell was telling me. “Is today a ...

The former GOP Senate leader is free to vote his conscience.

"No longer in charge, Sen. Mitch McConnell is speaking his mind," said Lisa Mascaro in the Associated Press. Now in his seventh and final term, the 83-year-old former Senate Republican leader has ...

While a few bills slipped through the cracks, with Senate Democrats getting crafty in budget appropriations packages that require a simple majority to legislate, McConnell’s party blocked most of the ...

McConnell's oppositional posture softened somewhat under President Joe Biden, when the Kentucky Republican blessed several bipartisan deals — to expand infrastructure spending and invest in ...

Later, when liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died weeks before the 2020 presidential election won by Democrat Joe Biden, McConnell rushed Amy Coney Barrett's confirmation through the Senate, waving ...

It soured after the 2020 election, and they stopped speaking altogether after McConnell congratulated Joe Biden for winning the election on the Senate floor that December. And McConnell offered a ...

Mitch McConnell, the longest-serving party leader in Senate history, will not seek reelection in 2026, the senator announced Thursday.