Despite his decades towering over Washington as a top GOP leader, he is now eclipsed by President Trump’s takeover of his ...

Change of heart on the filibuster, I see!” the former Arizona senator needled Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who had lashed ...

The Senate leader’s iron rule held together a fractious GOP conference that ran from squishy centrist to hardline conservative — and somehow managed to deny Barack Obama the revolution he ...

Democrats across the ideological spectrum are sharply criticizing Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) for caving on ...

Mitch McConnell will end his Senate career with ... McConnell made judicial confirmations his top priority and changed the Senate filibuster rules to lower the threshold needed for Supreme Court ...

Following a crushing electoral defeat in 2008, in which Democrats captured the House, the Senate and the Oval Office, then-66-year-old Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell drew out a roadmap for ...

One of my favorite moments of Mitch McConnell’s tenure as Senate ... invoked the nuclear option on the judicial filibuster in 2013. McConnell warned Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV ...

When Mitch McConnell took to the floor of the US Senate ... His regular tool was the filibuster, the ability of the determined Senate minority to block a simple legislative majority unless and ...

Mitch McConnell is, without exaggeration ... When Barack Obama swept into office in 2008 with control of the House and a filibuster-proof 60-seat majority in the Senate, it looked like nothing ...