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07/16/11 As the country's two main political parties remain at an impasse over raising the nation's debt ceiling, Sen. Mitch McConnell offered a plan to allow President Obama to prevent default by raising it on his own.
07/14/11 WASHINGTON. Republican presidential candidates are all but silent on Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell's proposal to sidestep a potentially disastrous government default on loan obligations.
07/14/11 Republican Sens. Mitch McConnell, left, Lamar Alexander and Jon Kyl board an elevator en route to a news conference in the Capitol about debt ceiling talks . Photo By Tom Williams/Roll Call. If the threat of a credit rating downgrade from Moody's Investors Service and a warning of possible "financial calamity" from Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke doesn't bring congressional leaders and ...
07/13/11 House and Senate conservatives voiced opposition to Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell's fallback plan to raise the debt limit. Read more...
07/13/11 PHILIP ELLIOTT Associated Press WASHINGTON. Republican presidential candidates are all but silent on Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell's proposal to sidestep a potentially disastrous government default on loan obligations. Not one candidate has endorsed it, and Newt Gingrich has come out against it, tweeting: "McConnell's plan is an irresponsible surrender to big government, big deficits and ...
07/12/11 Bathroom hand dryers are quaking in their proverbial TOMS wrap boots now that House Republicans are voting against energy-efficient light bulbs. Mitch McConnell isn't building bridges to the 21st century so much as he's digging landfills to be exhumed in the 21st century.
07/07/11 The most powerful figure in today's Republican Party is not John Boehner or Mitch McConnell. It is not Mitt Romney or Paul Ryan. It is not even Rush Limbaugh or Sarah Palin. It is, of course, Grover Norquist, the man with The Pledge.
07/06/11 by Keith Rouda Mitch McConnell may have no faith in the federal courts or Kentucky's law enforcement capabilities... but the mayor and city commissioners of Bowling Green do! They support trying the Bowling Green terror suspects right here at home, in civilian courts. WFPL reports that Bowling Green Mayor Joe Denning has confidence that the civilian law enforcement and legal systems can safely ...
07/06/11 U.S. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell on Wednesday criticized President Barack Obama's decision to try a Somali terror suspect in a civilian court in New York.
07/04/11 U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., cuts the ribbon as Summer Motion returns to the river.
06/25/11 Also, Mitch McConnell, Mike Rogers, Jim DeMint, James Clyburn, Jim Webb, Jon Kyl, Jack Reed.
06/24/11 The White House says President Barack Obama is stepping directly into stalled debt talks, inviting Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Republican leader Mitch McConnell separately to discussions Monday.
06/24/11 Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell told reporters at a Christian Science Monitor breakfast that Republicans likely 'muted' their foreign policy disagreements during the Bush administration and that Obama's health-care reforms 'constitute the single worst piece of legislation' he's seen passed. He also reminded the public that pundits previously wrote off the field of GOP candidates in 1980 ...
06/22/11 The Republican leader of the Senate, Mitch McConnell, said Wednesday that if the 2012 presidential election were being held today, the GOP theme should be: "He made it worse." (see video below)
06/18/11 Several local officials on Friday joined U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and other state figures in calling for two suspected Iraqi terrorists arrested in Bowling Green last month to be tried before a military commission at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, instead of in federal court in Kentucky.
06/18/11 After meeting for nearly 45 minutes with local elected officials and law enforcement authorities, U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., called Friday for area residents to contact federal officials about the possibility of moving two men arrested in Bowling Green on terrorism charges to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, instead of prosecuting them in Kentucky.
06/16/11 The U.S. Department of Justice released a statement this morning challenging a call by U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., to send the two Bowling Green men arrested on terrorism charges to the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, instead of trying the men in federal court.
06/14/11 First, Sen. Mitch McConnell has been extremely attentive to the chemical weapons disposal issue at the Blue Grass Army Depot over the years. In fact, just a few days ago, while meeting with Secretary of Defense-designate Leon Panetta, the senator made disposal efforts a top point of discussion.
06/14/11 BRETT BARROUQUERE Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. The top-ranking Republican in the U.S. Senate wants two Iraqis facing terrorism-related charges in Kentucky sent to the prison at Guantanamo Bay rather than allow them to face trial in a civilian court. Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, spoke on the Senate floor Tuesday morning and called 30-year-old Waad Ramadan Alwan and 23-year-old Mohanad ...
06/14/11 Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell called the suspects "foreign fighters" who be subject to the same system as combatants caught on a battlefield. The suspects were arrested in Bowling Green last month.
06/13/11 Billy Ray Cyrus and U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell headline the July 4 Summer Motion festival in Ashland. | 
