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...increase. GOP lawmakers and their leaders, House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, and Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, for the most part have come together to oppose any new revenue measures.Panetta last week said that...

http://brainerddispatch.com/2013-02-22-2
Choosing to govern - before 2014

...important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president," Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., famously said in October 2010.Last week Republican senators blocked confirmation of a well-qualified...

http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/guest-columns/2013-03-11/choosing-govern-201
Guest Columns
Sen. Klobuchar joins Sen. Hatch in ammendment to strip away tax on medical devices

...bipartisan vote to repeal the medical device tax is an important step in the right direction," said Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican. "Unfortunately, Obamacare remains a job-killer that grows the government and slows the...

http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/2013-03-26/sen-klobuchar-joins-sen-hatch-amm
Opinion
Shame!

...cost to Medicare. Is it a coincidence that Amgen has large financial and political ties with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Senators Orrin Hatch and Max Baucus. Aren't these the same senators that complain Medicare is broke? Shame...

http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/open-forum/2013-01-25/shame
Open Forum
It must be over

...cost to Medicare. Is it a coincidence that Amgen has large financial and political ties with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, senators Orrin Hatch and Max Baucus. Aren't these the same senators that complain Medicare is broke? Shame...

http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/open-forum/2013-01-25/it-must-be-over
Open Forum
The GOP's sequester stumble

...bargain based on realistic negotiations. Instead, House Speaker John Boehner, Ohio, and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Ky., insisted that the only way to deal with the sequester is their way. They would not accept even a modest...

http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/columnists/2013-02-07/gops-sequester-stumble
Columnists
Obama's default drama no way to run a country

...just made the Bush-era tax cuts permanent for all but the top 0.7 percent of earners. And Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, echoing the view of his caucus, said the "tax issue is finished, over, completed."The lines in the sand have...

http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/guest-columns/2013-01-11/obamas-default-dram
Guest Columns
Late compromise in fiscal cliff saga

An 11th hour compromise, engineered by Vice President Joe Biden and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, gained the support of most members of the Senate. At 2 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 1, 89 senators voted in favor of the compromise...

http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/2013-01-01/late-compromise-fiscal-cliff-saga
Opinion
Sen. McConnell declares GOP has voter mandate not to raise taxes

Last Tuesday night was anything but a mandate for the Republican Party's agenda. Yet Sen. Mitch McConnell, minority Senate leader, made the inexplicable comment that has befuddled even the closest political observer: "I am not willing...

http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/2012-11-13/sen-mcconnell-declares-gop-has-vo
Opinion
Where are the great Senate leaders?

...Donald Trump" and "fabulously rich so-called small-business owners like Kim Kardashian and Paris Hilton." Mitch McConnell, the minority leader, responded by blaming President Obama for the "slowest recovery ever" and for championing...

http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/columnists/2012-07-18/where-are-great-senate
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