The Latest Breaking News from Mitch McConnell

National term limits debate resurfaces at inopportune moment for Maryland Rep. Andy Harris

In Texas, an advocacy group displayed an oversized image of an unsmiling U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar on billboards with a message that the Texas Democrat doesn’t support term limits. In Utah, a primary challenger said Republican U.S. Sen. Mike Lee should end his campaign for a third term because he…

Tribune News Service · May 10, 2022

Schumer says vote to save Roe is not an ‘abstract exercise’ and ‘is as real and as high stakes as it gets’

Democrats are pushing for their legislation to codify the protections in Roe v Wade despite little likelihood it can pass

The Independent UK · May 9, 2022

US ‘at serious risk’ of GOP enacting national abortion ban, White House says

‘You’ve heard ... Mitch McConnell and other Republicans in Congress are talking about a national ban on a woman’s right to choose’

The Independent UK · May 9, 2022

McConnell warns of federal abortion ban

"Nationwide abortion ban: that's the goal of anti-abortion politicians," Planned Parenthood Action chimes in

Salon · May 9, 2022

Donald Trump attends $75,000-a-head fundraiser at Kentucky Derby

Former president was met with cheers from red state crowd

The Independent UK · May 8, 2022

National ban on abortion? Arkansas governor says no

A possible national ban on abortion got the thumbs-down on Sunday from the governor of Arkansas, a prominent Republican, who said the policy would be “inconsistent with what we’ve been fighting for.”

Tribune News Service · May 8, 2022

McConnell, Utah leaders honor 'larger than life' Orrin Hatch

Politicians, friends and colleagues paid tribute to the late U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch at a memorial service in Salt Lake City

The Independent UK · May 6, 2022

School nutrition waiver issue emerges in supplemental talks

Senate Agriculture Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow wants to extend pandemic waivers for providing universal free school meals in a funding bill.

Roll Call · May 6, 2022

Will Bunch: The Supreme Court leak confirmed that this is no longer the America we grew up in

When the news dropped around 9 p.m. on Monday, one woman said she’d stomped around her house, cussing. Another said she cried. Only 20 hours after the unprecedented leak of a looming Supreme Court decision to undo nearly a half-century of abortion rights, they and more than 100 other people,…

The Philadelphia Inquirer · May 6, 2022

Whodunit?

And why that is, at this point, an important question - maybe the only important question - emerging from the recent Dobbs leak

Reason · May 5, 2022