Mitch McConnell News

Former Kentucky Democratic Party Chairman Bill Garmer said Friday he is considering running for the U.S. Senate next year if Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes declines to enter the race against Republican incumbent Mitch McConnell.

As the GOP-controlled House of Representatives prepares again to vote this week on a repeal of the 2010 health law, some key Republican senators have seized on recent news developments to show their ire.

The IRS scandal has caused consternation on Capitol Hill. U.S. Senate Minority Leader Sen.

Deciding how America will nourish itself and sustain its farms would seem a top policy priority - yet as the US Farm Bill demonstrates, sustainably grown, healthy food and livable incomes for farmers and workers remain an afterthought in a process controlled almost entirely by agribusiness and a handful of farm-state legislators.

The Sunday morning talk shows will find a lot to talk about in the Washington controversies over the IRS , the Department of Justice and the Benghazi attack.

May 17 - Today Greenpeace placed a full-page ad in the Lexington Herald-Leader reminding Senator McConnell that "Free Speech Isn't Just for People You Agree With." The Kentucky Senator has stated he is "deeply disturbed" by the recent allegedly politically motivated audits of tea party groups by the IRS, though he was notably silent during similar ... (more)

A video posted on the Politico website featuring Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's chief of staff has been taken down after the Kentucky Republican's office objected to its placement on a page designed to solicit advertisers.

U.S. Senate Minority Leader Sen Mitch McConnell speaks as Sen. Ted Cruz , Rep. Michele Bachmann, Sen.

Senator Lamar Alexander announced that the U.S. Senate on Thursday passed his legislation that would immediately ban the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers from implementing fishing restrictions for two years, the second time in as many days senators have supported "the freedom to fish below publicly owned dams on the Cumberland River." Thursday's action ... (more)

On Thursday, McConnell found himself flanked by tea-party-backed Bachmann, left, and King at a news conference outside the Capitol.

Obama may be on the verge of joining a long list of his predecessors who ran into severe political problems in their second terms in office.

In 1964, an ambitious young student at the University of Louisville made an impassioned plea to his classmates, urging them to march in solidarity with Martin Luther King Jr.

US Attorney General Eric Holder sat before the House Judiciary Committee and told them all the things he does not know.

A Senate committee voted along party lines on Thursday to send President Barack Obama's controversial nominee for secretary of labor, Thomas Perez, to the full Senate for a confirmation vote.

Moving to quell a growing scandal, President Obama on Wednesday fired the acting chief of the IRS and vowed to work closely with Congress in determining who ordered lower-level employees to target tea party groups and other conservative organizations.

It's called kynect: Kentucky's Healthcare Connection. Kentucky's Office of the Health Benefit Exchange will run it.

Historically, an open-air train ride has been a central part of the Zoo experience, but no rides have been available since the June 2009 train crash.

Bruce Lunsford is an NKU graduate and Louisville-based investor. He was the Democratic nominee for Kentucky's U.S. Senate seat in 2008, but was defeated by Mitch McConnell.

Senate appropriators are moving forward with spending bills for the next fiscal year, even without a House-Senate agreement on the budget.

Gov. Steve Beshear says he's part of efforts to recruit a Democrat to challenge Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell in next year's election in Kentucky.