Mitch McConnell

The end of Roe v. Wade started in the Senate.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said Tuesday that he is “comfortable” with the contours of a bipartisan deal on gun legislation and will back it if the measure “ends up reflecting what the framework indicates.”  “I’m comfortable with the framework and if the legislation ends up reflecting what the framework indicates, I’ll be supporting” it, McConnell said. The powerful Republican’s...

Most every Republican lawmaker expressed outrage in the days after the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Some even blamed then-President Donald Trump. But the larger GOP narrative shifted in the weeks and months that followed. Republican House leader Kevin McCarthy, who had said in the hours after the attack that it had been “the saddest day…

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell says Finland and Sweden would be “important additions” to NATO. McConnell spoke to reporters from Stockholm, where he’s leading a delegation of GOP senators in a show of support against Russia’s aggression. McConnell also is calling on President Joe Biden to designate Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism over its invasion of Ukraine. McConnell...

Joining the Kentucky Republican in the unannounced trip to Ukraine’s capital were Sens. Susan Collins of Maine, John Barrasso of Wyoming and John Cornyn of Texas.

The Senate GOP leader said he took issue with Ketanji Brown Jackson’s responses this week during her confirmation hearing.

Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman nominated to the top court, is set to appear Monday before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Prominent Republican senators Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., and Mitt Romney, R-Utah, called for President Joe Biden to help facilitate the transfer of MiG-29 jets from Poland to Ukraine.

Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky, spoke on Thursday after Russia invaded Ukraine.

Senate Democrats and Republicans each want to flash election-year signals that they’re helping families struggling with rising costs and the two-year-old pandemic

Activision CEO Bobby Kotick has another LLC that he used to donate big money to Republican campaigns.

Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., criticized the Republican National Committee for censuring two Republican members of the House of Representatives for serving on the January 6th Committee.

Former President Donald Trump says Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell “does not speak for the Republican Party.”

Jan. 6 was “a violent insurrection,” McConnell said, pushing back on the RNC description of that day’s events as “legitimate political discourse.”

Republican-led super PACs outraised their Democratic rivals in the latter half of last year, giving them more firepower ahead of this year’s midterm elections.

Senate Republicans are set to block two voting rights bills, leading Democrats to consider filibuster changes to pass them.

A line from a speech given from the U.S. Senate floor before rioters broke into the Capitol on Jan. 6 tops a Yale Law School librarian’s list of the most notable quotes of 2021.

The Senate has passed a fast-track plan for raising the debt limit

Congressional leaders have reached a deal to lift the nation’s debt limit

Washington and Wall Street were optimistic Monday that Congress can pass a bill to fund the government and avert a partial shutdown before a Friday deadline.