The Republican Senate is where House Democratic bills go to die.

The resolution was passed unanimously in the House, and President Trump himself said earlier Monday that it "wouldn't bother [him] at all" if the full report was released.

Appearing at McConnell’s office marks the first time the youth climate advocates have used their tactics at a Republican office in Washington.

In the latest of a string of revelations from the former acting FBI director, he says leading Republicans didn’t object to the counterintelligence probe into Trump.

Chao has met at least 10 times with politicians and business leaders from the state in response to requests from McConnell’s office.

McConnell is saying the quiet part out loud on voting rights.

“I’m certainly open to it”

“This guy’s mean as a snake!” he said, pointing at McConnell and looking around the room. The entire group burst out laughing.

The Senate approves by unanimous consent a bill to re-open the government for three weeks while negotiations continue on border security funding.

“This is your fault.”

It's the fourth time he's blocked the bill to reopen most of government.

The protestors arrived at the Lexington office in hopes of handing off some letters to the senator’s staff about the government shutdown

The Senate measure is likely to encompass funding for the president's wall as well as funding for the 25 percent of the government that's been shut down for the last month.

...the saturnine Senate leader issued a Washington Post op-ed that reads a lot like a series of spell-checked Donald Trump tweets

Democrats aren’t only coming after free speech. They’re also taking aim at your wallet.

"He seems to be running away from us"

McConnell blocked the two bills, saying the Senate wouldn't "participate in something that doesn't lead to an outcome."

McConnell (R-Ky.) could bring a “clean” funding bill to the floor, free up his GOP caucus to support it and could quite possibly secure enough votes to override a presidential veto.

McConnell blocked Senate Democrats' attempt Thursday to move forward with legislation that would reopen government agencies

For weeks, Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader, has remained conspicuously on the sidelines, insisting that it was up to President Trump and Democrats

“The Senate will not waste its time considering a Democratic bill which cannot pass this chamber and which the president will not sign,”

“McConnell is one of the best vote-counters in politics, and he generally knows when to fold a losing hand [...] He’s now stuck with a president who prefers to double down on a losing hand.”

McConnell “made clear to the administration that he would consider any effort by the White House to challenge the Russians publicly an act of partisan politics.”

McConnell said the bill was "a solution in search of a problem."

Breaking with the president, [...] McConnell said that the intelligence agency has "basically certified" Saudi involvement at the highest levels.

Then, in an abrupt tack, he argued that Democrats, having regained control of the House, should refrain from investigating President Trump

"Why don't you get out of here? Why don't you leave the entire country?" one man shouted.

The majority leader's comments on entitlements allow Democrats to change the conversation from Brett Kavanaugh.

“If we had the votes to completely start over, we’d do it. But that depends on what happens in a couple weeks.”

It was a quietly refreshing moment, in which McConnell effectively dropped the entire charade that Republicans are a party that prioritizes fiscal prudence

McConnell said Saturday he was not concerned that the bitter confirmation process for Judge Brett Kavanaugh would affect future Supreme Court nominations or how women view the Republican Party.

“We stood up to the mob,” he said of Republicans.

“If the US has someone whom historians will look back on as the gravedigger of American democracy, it is Mitch McConnell.”

McConnell is as cynical a politician as you’ll find in Washington, but what makes this quote so frightening is that it goes beyond cynicism into delusion.

McConnell’s focus right now is entirely on the triumvirate of GOP Sens. Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Jeff Flake of Arizona. McConnell needs two out of the three to back Kavanaugh

The vast majority of Chao’s private appointments occurred on Fridays — frequently after lunchtime

Here's the problem with McConnell's righteous rage: It conveniently overlooks how he -- and Senate Republicans -- managed the nomination of Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court.

The majority leader wants to deprive Democrats up for reelection the chance to campaign.

The deal [...] also will allow senators who missed most of their August recess to go home for a couple of days

Senate Republicans are sending decidedly mixed messages about how they feel about the future of Attorney General Jeff Sessions

The Senate GOP leader is vowing to squeeze Democrats with a vote on Brett Kavanaugh right before the midterms if they don’t back down on their demand for documents.

The Kentucky Republican abruptly left Sarino, an Italian restaurant in Schnitzelburg, on Sunday night after protesters blared Public Enemy's "Fight The Power" and yelled "no justice no peace."

The Louisville encounter was the second time in two weeks that McConnell's private life has been disrupted by a spontaneous protest

Chao and McConnell, who are married, were about to climb into a black SUV when they were approached by a small group of young men at Georgetown University. One started repeating, “Why are you separating families?”

The country will be dealing with the consequences of his outrageous stunt for decades to come.

...will have the added benefit of keeping Democrats desperate to keep their Senate seats off the campaign trail for a month of prime campaign time.

McConnell announced Tuesday the Senate will skip much of its treasured August recess to press ahead confirming the President's nominees and passing government spending bills.

Trump’s plea gave voice to this anxiety, suggesting that a victory by Mr. Blankenship in the primary would all but ensure the re-election of the Democratic incumbent,

With John McCain (R-Ariz.) home battling cancer and Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) home with a new baby, McConnell has been leading a 50-48 Senate of late.

McConnell said the bill is unnecessary because President Donald Trump will not fire Mueller.

Even if Democrats won't support the proposal, such a vote may have political utility after Senate Democrats opposed last year's tax measure. Ten Democrats are up for reelection this year in states that President Donald Trump won, and voting against tax cuts a second time could be fodder for Republicans looking to pick up Senate seats.

McConnell will almost certainly face questions about Mueller at his weekly press conference Tuesday afternoon. To date, his approach has been to say as little as possible.

Asked whether he wished he had handled the accusations about Russian interference differently ahead of the 2016 elections, McConnell said, “No, I’m perfectly comfortable with the steps that were taken back then.”

McConnell (R-Ky.) was single-handedly responsible for downgrading the language in a letter “asking the states to work with us” to better secure election systems in light of intelligence indicating Russia was attempting to interfere in the election.

McConnell’s comments are a direct blow to the agenda of House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.), who has been saying for weeks that Congress will work on ways to reduce spending on Medicare, Medicaid and welfare in the new year.

Asked during an appearance on ABC News’s “This Week” whether he thought Mr. Moore, who has been accused of preying on teenage girls, should be in the Senate, Mr. Connell said the decision should be left to the Dec. 12 special election.

While GOP candidates distance themselves from the Senate leader, Democrats hope to turn him into the next Nancy Pelosi.

—Judge Roy Moore

The comments go further than the majority leader's initial statement last week... McConnell said then that Moore should leave the race if the allegations were true.

"There’s been no indication that the President or the White House are not cooperating with the special counsel."

The Breitbart chief tells top House GOP campaign strategists that his focus is on Mitch McConnell.

The top Senate Republican on Thursday teed up votes to install four nominees to the powerful appellate courts, which give the final word on the vast majority of cases that don’t reach the Supreme Court.

Bannon has said he is plotting challenges to every incumbent Senate Republican up for reelection next year except Sen. Ted Cruz (Texas). ... “There’s a time and season for everything and right now it’s a season of war against a GOP establishment,” Bannon said.

“This pattern of failure from McConnell’s gang of five leadership team while loathing and attacking their own base, the most loyal bloc of voters that has elected them and all of their caucus members, can no longer be tolerated”

Though the Senate has virtually eliminated the ability of the minority party to block appointments to the bench from the Supreme Court on down, individual senators can still thwart nominees from their home states by refusing to sign off on a form popularly known for its color — the blue slip.

In a surprising blow to his own party’s congressional leadership, the president on Wednesday struck a deal with Democrats to package nearly $8 billion in Hurricane Harvey relief with a three-month extension of government funding and increase in the debt ceiling.

Sources with knowledge of the August 9 call said the exchange quickly devolved into a shouting match as an irate Trump expressed his frustrations about the congressional investigation into Russian interference with the US election last year and fumed about a Russia sanctions bill

What was once an uneasy governing alliance has curdled into a feud of mutual resentment and sometimes outright hostility, complicated by the position of Mr. McConnell’s wife, Elaine L. Chao, in Mr. Trump’s cabinet

The list of people he has been willing, even eager, to publicly attack includes not just Mitch McConnell, his latest target, but Jeff Sessions, Chuck Schumer, Paul D. Ryan, John McCain, Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.

In a press conference later in the day, a reporter asked Trump whether McConnell should step aside as majority leader. "Well, I'll tell you what, if he doesn't get repeal and replace done and if he doesn't get taxes done, meaning cuts and reform, and if he doesn't get a very easy one to get done, infrastructure, if he doesn't get them done, then you can ask me that question"

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has said it's “time to move on” from the issue after the failed votes, but Conway said that Trump “will not accept” those who believe that.

But the most remarkable takeaway from the defeat of repeal ought to be how close it came to passing.

"I imagine many of our colleagues on the other side are celebrating, probably pretty happy about this," a stunned seeming McConnell said from the Senate floor. "But the American people are hurting and they need relief."

McConnell and his leadership team are throwing everything they have at wavering senators: the threat of political disaster if they fail, an open amendment process to allow their ideas to be debated — and the argument that a flawed Senate bill can be fixed later in conference negotiations with the House.

Below the leadership level, Republicans are defying Trump more often, and McConnell and Ryan aren’t always standing in their way. You can see this defiance in the bipartisan Senate investigation of the Russia scandal. You can see it in the deal on Russian sanctions.

The vote is a reward to the ultras who sabotaged repeal and replace by allowing them to posture one more time as purists who have not forsaken the true faith. It punishes the cautious senators who recoiled from huge Medicaid cuts by thrusting upon them a clear alternate they would prefer to evade.

The Senate majority leader doesn’t appear to have the support necessary to pass a repeal-only bill, but seems determined to press ahead without it.

The president said he was "disappointed" by Monday's collapse of the GOP replacement plan, known as the Better Care Reconciliation Act. He called Democrats "obstructionists" for not supporting the measure.

He’s now pivoting to a repeal-and-delay plan.

That’s because the tactics McConnell is using to get his win — which have entailed previously unimaginable amounts of secrecy, speed, and utter disregard for public opinion — are a blueprint that future Senate majorities will surely use for their own purposes.

Privately, Republicans said the delay could be as little as a week as McCain recovers in Arizona, though others worried it could stretch for several weeks and jeopardize the entire repeal effort.

McConnell ... plans to release an updated Republican health care bill on Thursday and is delaying the body's annual August recess by two weeks in an effort to generate momentum for the beleaguered legislation.

"If my side is unable to agree on an adequate replacement, then some kind of action with regard to the private health insurance market must occur"

McConnell is sticking to his current plan of trying to simultaneously repeal and replace Obamacare, despite a call from President Donald Trump and some conservative members of his conference to separate the two tasks.

Portman’s opposition shows just how far McConnell is from getting the 50 votes he needs to pass the bill. It’s not a matter of several conservatives or moderates not supporting the proposal. McConnell appears to be as many as 15 to 20 votes shy of majority support.

The effort reflects the tight timeline McConnell faces in his attempt to hold a vote in July — and the pressure he is under to change the bill to garner enough support to pass it.

Mitch McConnell miscalculated.

...the Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, on Tuesday delayed a vote on legislation to repeal the Affordable Care Act

Although Roosevelt, who himself suffered from polio, used his name and popularity to raise money for his treatment center, it did not receive federal dollars

If Obamacare repeal fails in the Senate, the GOP might be forced to compromise with Democrats.

They can afford to lose only two votes, but five Republican senators have announced that they cannot support the health care bill as drafted, and others have expressed concerns.

McConnell, you see, almost landed in a wheelchair himself. He contracted polio in his quadricep at the age of two while living in Alabama.

One could even argue that bog-standard Republicans, under the leadership of Ryan and McConnell, represent an bigger threat to our democracy than Trump, possessing as they do more competence and cunning than the TV-addled overgrown toddler in the White House.

...the majority leader is deeply aware there's a strong possibility the whole effort might lose steam if his members return to their home states for the July Fourth recess without finishing their work on health care before then.

McConnell faces the same challenge that Speaker Paul D. Ryan confronted in the House. A bill that caters to conservatives risks alienating moderates.

Republicans are trying to repeal the ACA under special budget rules that eliminate the need for Democratic votes. Even so, it is highly unusual for the majority party’s senators to be kept in the dark on a top party priority.

“Fast-tracking a major legislative overhaul such as health care reform or a new national energy tax without the benefit of a full and transparent debate does a disservice to the American people,” McConnell said in 2009

But the health care reform battle is now squarely in McConnell’s court: He will decide the contents of the Senate’s plan, most likely behind closed doors.

“one of the biggest targets for Republicans has been eliminating preventative care for women and maternity care and so having no woman there is stunning”

One of the most prominent was Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who on Friday tweeted out his support for Trump's strike

After McConnell justified his filibuster-ending “nuclear option” by saying it would be beneficial for the Senate, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said this: “Whoever says that is a stupid idiot.”

Should that be the policy going forward? ... “No Supreme Court nominations will be considered in any even-numbered year.” Is that where we’re headed?​​

If Democrats band together, the Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky, has threatened to pursue the so-called nuclear option eliminating the filibuster for Supreme Court selections.

"Uh, no."

“She was warned,” McConnell said later. “She was given an explanation. Nevertheless, she persisted.” Wow, nothing worse than a woman who won’t stop talking.

The GOP’s paternalistic attitude toward women in power is well captured by McConnell’s condescending tone.