Mitch McConnell News

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell talked about the political career of fellow Kentuckian John J. Crittenden, a member of the U.S. Senate in the 1800s.

The U.S. Senate voted 52-44 Thursday afternoon to kill an amendment to the Farm Bill that would have eliminated federal crop insurance subsidies for tobacco.

I've spent years watching Mitch McConnell, several of them interviewing and reporting on him.

Republican Rand Paul will run for re-election to the U.S. Senate in 2016 regardless of any decision to launch a presidential bid.

According to Sen. Robert Menendez , the so-called Gang of Eight's immigration reform bill does not have enough votes at this point to pass the Senate.

They began as sworn enemies and later made peace as allies of convenience. Now Kentucky's two Republican senators, Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul, have developed a working relationship that serves their mutual interests , but which is threatening to tear the GOP apart in the U.S. Senate.

The U.S. Department of Energy has rejected a proposal that would have extended operations at the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant.

Controversy is swirling around the White House, with inquiries into the consulate attack in Benghazi, the IRS' targeting of conservative groups and the Justice Department's probe of journalists' phone records.

Sen. Chuck Schumer has joined Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in again talking about the possibility of Democrats using the nuclear option to curtain the filibuster.

The Obama Administration's " culture of intimidation ," as Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has called it, has affected the Broadcasting Board of Governors .

As Northwestern University's Medill Reports notes , Beam Inc . , the Deerfield, Ill.-based parent company of brands such as Jim Beam and Makers Mark bourbons, makes political donations through a political action committee.

Things keep getting bleaker for coal country in Kentucky. The number of coal jobs hit the lowest level recorded since the state started keeping track in 1950, according to a government agency.

The Internal Revenue Service is an important cog in the implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, commonly shorthanded as Obamacare.

Three days of congressional hearings about the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative political groups have lawmakers looking for ways to widen an investigation that has so far been largely contained within the tax collection agency.

Ernest Moniz, Barack Obama's new Secretary of Energy, is making it clear there is no room for dissent regarding climate change.

Sen. Mitch McConnell is continuing his push to tie Democratic efforts to increase campaign finance disclosures to the IRS scandal.

Tech fought hard for changes in the Senate immigration bill and largely won them.

Burmese President Thein Sein made a historic visit to the White House on May 19, the latest in a series of high-level symbolic exchanges between the two nations.

U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander announced Senate passage last week of a proposal he included in the Water Resources Development Act that would prohibit the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers from implementing its proposed fishing restrictions below dams on the Cumberland River, and delegate enforcement to state wildlife agencies.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell both reported their net worth in the millions of dollars as the U.S. Senate today released personal financial disclosure reports for its members.