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Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett won crucial backing Saturday when one of the last Republican holdouts against filling the seat so close to Election Day announced support ahead of a confirmation vote expected Monday

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says that he’s scheduling a procedural vote on a GOP COVID-19 relief bill for next week

Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell and Democratic challenger Amy McGrath have sparred over the federal response to the coronavirus crisis in a hard-hitting televised debate

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell spent a year prepping his Republican colleagues for this moment confirming a Supreme Court justice

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Thursday he hasn’t gone to the White House since August because their approach to safety during the coronavirus pandemic “is different than mine,” NBC News reports.

President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that he had instructed Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., to cease negotiations on the stimulus package until after the election.

Senate Republicans want to cancel legislative work until Oct. 19 as coronavirus rampages their ranks. But Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Saturday that Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Judge Amy Coney Barrett are still set to begin on Monday, Oct. 12.

President Donald Trump has signed a bill to fund the government through Dec. 11, averting the possibility of a government shutdown when the new fiscal year starts Thursday.

In a rare rebuke several top Republicans contradicted President Trump Thursday, saying there would indeed be an orderly transition of power in the event Trump loses the 2020 election .

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg lay in repose outside the Supreme Court, with dozens of former clerks standing guard at the casket. But the open seat has created a fierce battle that Republicans are rushing to win.

Democrats are accusing Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of blatant hypocrisy after he pledged a Senate vote on President Donald Trump’s nominee to the Supreme Court

President Donald Trump is urging the Republican-run Senate to consider “without delay” his upcoming nomination to fill the Supreme Court seat vacated by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg just six weeks before the election.

President Donald Trump on Saturday said he will be working closely with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell as they seek to fill the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s seat on the Supreme Court.

Republican senators face questions about their own past comments as they weigh what to do about the vacancy on the Supreme Court

The death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is putting the Senate into uncharted political terrain. A look at the confirmation process and what we know and don’t know about what’s to come

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden said Friday that President Donald Trump should not immediately seek to fill the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s seat on the Supreme Court. “There is no doubt, let me be clear, that the voters should pick the president and the president should pick the justice for the Senate to consider,” he said.

Rhetoric at the Republican National Convention claimed chaos in American cities

Help for the U_S_ Postal Service has landed in stalemate as the White House dismissed an emergency funding bill aimed at shoring up the agency before the November elections as “going nowhere.”

Hopes that talks on a huge COVID-19 relief deal would generate an agreement soon are fizzling, with both the Trump administration negotiating team and top congressional Democrats adopting hard lines and testy attitudes.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) announced the Health, Economic Assistance, Liability Protection and Schools, or HEALS, Act Monday night, the upper chamber’s long-awaited coronavirus stimulus package. The $1 trillion bill includes an extra $200 per week in unemployment insurance, down from $600 in the earlier CARES Act, and more money for schools, among other measures. The bill also proposes a...