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Mitch McConnell freezes up again during news conference
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Mitch McConnell freezes mid-speech at U.S. Capitol
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Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell leaves news conference after freezing up mid-sentence
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., center, is helped by, from left, Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., and Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, after the 81-year-old GOP leader froze at the microphones as he arrived for a news conference, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, July 26, 2023. McConnell went to his office for a few minutes and returned to speak with reporters. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Mitch McConnell leaves rehab facility after therapy for concussion
FILE - Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., speaks to reporters following a closed-door policy meeting, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023. McConnell said Saturday, March 25, that he has been released from the rehabilitation facility where he had physical therapy for a concussion caused by a fall earlier this month. The 81-year-old Kentucky Republican said in a statement released by his office that he will work from home for the next few days. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
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Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell hospitalized after fall
FILE - Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., speaks to reporters following a closed-door policy meeting, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, March 7, 2023. A spokesman for McConnell said the senator has been hospitalized after tripping and falling Wednesday, March 8, at a hotel. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
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Bipartisan group of U.S. senators proposes changes to electors law after Capitol riot
FILE PHOTO: U.S. Senators' Susan Collins (R-ME) and Joe Manchin (R-WV) brief reporters after lawmakers struck a deal to reopen the federal government three days into a shutdown on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., January 22, 2018. REUTERS/Leah Millis/File Photo
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Gretchen Whitmer, Mitch McConnell were among gunman targets, spokesman and source say
This March 17, 2020, photo provided by the Wisconsin Department of Corrections shows Douglas K. Uhde, who is suspected in the shooting death of retired Juneau, Wis., County Judge John Roemer. (Wisconsin Department of Corrections via AP)
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Mitch McConnell, GOP senators meet Zelensky in unannounced Kyiv visit
FILE - Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., speaks to reporters ahead of a procedural vote on Wednesday to essentially codify Roe v. Wade, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, May 10, 2022. McConnell and a delegation of GOP senators met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv during an unannounced visit Saturday, May 14, delivering the latest show of American support for the country in its war with Russia. A video posted on Zelenskyy’s Telegram account showed McConnell, R-Ky., and Sens. Susan Collins of Maine, John Barrasso of Wyoming and John Cornyn of Texas greeting him in the capital. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
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McConnell says Republicans will not again aid Democrats in raising debt limit
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) arrives for a luncheon with Senate Republicans at the Capitol in Washington on Thursday, Oct. 7, 2021. McConnell accused Democrats of not being able deliver an increase in the debt ceiling while using his power to prevent them from doing so. (T.J. Kirkpatrick/The New York Times)
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Senate dodges U.S. debt disaster, voting to extend borrowing
WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 06: Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) walks to a caucus meeting with Democratic Senators after a procedural vote on the debt limit was postponed at the U.S. Capitol Building on October 06, 2021 in Washington, DC. Congress has until October 18 to raise the debt ceiling or risk a default that would have widespread economic consequences. Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
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U.S. Senate delays vote as Democrats mull McConnell’s offer of temporary extension on emergency debt limit
WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 06: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) walks to his office at the U.S. Capitol on October 06, 2021 in Washington, DC. Congress has until October 18 to raise the debt ceiling or risk a default that would have widespread economic consequences. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
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Trump-McConnell feud threatens Republicans’ path to power
(FILES) In this file photo taken on August 24, 2017 (COMBO) This combination of pictures created on August 24, 2017 shows US President Donald Trump )L) August 11, 2017 in Bedminster, New Jersey and US Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky, in Washington, DC, June 27, 2017. - Donald Trump urged Republican senators February 16, 2021 to dump Mitch McConnell as their leader in the Senate following his withering criticism of the former US president after his impeachment trial. (Photos by JIM WATSON and SAUL LOEB / AFP) (Photo by JIM WATSON,SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)
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U.S. Senate acquits Donald Trump in his second impeachment trial
The U.S. Senate votes to acquit former U.S. President Donald Trump by a vote of 57 guilty to 43 not guilty, short of the 2/3s majority needed to convict, during the fifth day of the impeachment trial of the former president on charges of inciting the deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., February 13, 2021. U.S. Senate TV/Handout via Reuters EDITORIAL USE ONLY NO COMMERCIAL SALES
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Hypocrisy is certainly a vice, but it is not the most important one
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Marjorie Taylor Greene a ‘cancer’ on Republicans, McConnell says, as Democrats push to drop her from committees
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., wears a "Trump Won" face mask as she arrives on the floor of the House to take her oath of office on opening day of the 117th Congress at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Sunday, Jan. 3, 2021. (Erin Scott/Pool via AP)
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Senate Republican leader McConnell offers support for power-sharing deal with Democrats
U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) walks to his office after delivering floor remarks at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., January 25, 2021. REUTERS/Al Drago
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The healing of America must start with holding Donald Trump accountable for his actions
Erna Paris
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Janet Yellen pushes GOP senators on $1.9-trillion pandemic relief package
FILE -- Janet Yellen, then chair of the Federal Reserve Board and currently President-elect Joe Biden's choice as Secretary of the Treasury, in Washington on Dec. 13, 2017. If confirmed by the Senate, Yellen would be in a position to restore some of the Trump administration’s regulatory rollbacks. (Eric Thayer/The New York Times)
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McConnell says Trump ‘provoked’ U.S. Capitol siege, mob was ‘fed lies’
In this Jan. 6, 2021, photo, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell walks from the Senate floor to his office on Capitol Hill, in Washington.
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Donald Trump may have met his Waterloo, but Trumpism will live on
Konrad Yakabuski
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Trump’s impeachment trial could begin on Inauguration Day
U.S. President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House, in Washington, on Dec. 7, 2020.
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U.S. Capitol police chief resigns amid calls for accountability after insurrection
A Capitol Police officer stands with members of the National Guard behind a crowd control fence surrounding Capitol Hill a day after a pro-Trump mob broke into the US Capitol on January 7, 2021, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP) (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)
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Trump’s mob storms the Capitol, but achieves nothing
A police officer detains a pro-Trump protester as mobs storm the U.S. Capitol, during a rally to contest the certification of the 2020 U.S. presidential election results by the U.S. Congress, at the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, U.S, January 6, 2021. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY
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Donald Trump’s supporters stormed Washington because MAGA keeps losing
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McConnell, Pelosi homes vandalized after push for $2,000 COVID-19 relief check fails
Graffiti reading, "Where's my money" is seen on a door of the home of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., in Louisville, Ky., on Saturday, Jan. 2, 2021. As of Saturday morning, messages like “where’s my money” and other expletives were written with spray paint across the front door and bricks of the Kentucky Republican’s Highlands residence. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley)
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Donald Trump returns to White House early, offers year-end message
President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump step off Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Thursday, Dec. 31, 2020. Trump is returning to Washington after visiting his Mar-a-Lago resort. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
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McConnell blocks Senate vote on $2,000 stimulus cheques favoured by Trump, Democrats
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell leaves the Senate floor as he and the rest of the U.S. Senate face a decision over approving 2,000 dollars stimulus checks on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., December 30, 2020.
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U.S. Congress approves $892-billion COVID-19 relief package
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), walks from the Senate floor as both chambers of Congress are aimed to pass the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) package in a marathon session on Capitol Hill Washington, D.C., U.S., December 21, 2020. REUTERS/Ken Cedeno
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Fight over Federal Reserve powers stalls $900-billion coronavirus aid plan
Sen. Patrick Toomey, R-Penn., listens to Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross during a Senate Finance Committee hearing on tariffs, on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, June 20, 2018 in Washington. When Sen.Toomey looks at the future of the ketchup market in his home state of Pennsylvania, he sees real blood on the floor. On Sunday, Canada's $16.6-billion worth of retaliatory tariffs on dozens of U.S. products is set to kick in ??? the country's answer to the crushing steel and aluminum tariffs imposed by the Trump administration.THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin
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Talks escalate on new COVID-19 aid package, top U.S. congressional leaders to meet
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi takes part in a news conference on Capitol Hill, in Washington, on Dec. 10, 2020.
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McConnell congratulates president-elect Biden, says Electoral College ‘has spoken’
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell walks to the Senate Chamber on Capitol Hill, in Washington, on Dec. 11, 2020.