The Latest Breaking News from Mitch McConnell

On his “The Only Former U.S. Senator Now on Tour Tour,” Al Franken is proudly singing the praises of Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and denouncing the Grateful Dead as the most boring and overrated band of all time.

The absurd chorus of Republican rationalization for opposing Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson hit a crescendo over the weekend with this comment from Missouri Sen. Roy Blunt: “I won’t be supporting her, but I’ll be joining others in understanding the importance of this moment.” Huh? Other GOP senators have…

WASHINGTON — Senators appear to be scaling back a proposed COVID-19 aid package to about $10 billion by eliminating a $5 billion foreign assistance component.

The Florida senator calls himself an "outsider" among Republicans

"Anybody in the conference can run if they choose to," he said.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell says a bipartisan package to provide fresh spending to combat COVID-19 may drop to $10 billion

Senators negotiating a COVID-19 supplemental funding package have an “agreement in principle” to provide roughly $10 billion.

Earlier this month, a speech warning about the dangers of politicizing the U.S. Supreme Court was delivered in Utah by an authoritative, insider source, who cautioned that "[a]t some point the institution is going to be compromised." He voiced his growing concern that eventually we could "chip away at the…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Missouri Gov. Mike Parson on Wednesday said he believed allegations of domestic abuse against former Gov. Eric Greitens, but stopped short of calling on him to drop out of the U.S. Senate race.