An oligarchy is a form of government where a small group of people — typically, the very wealthy — holds most or all of the ...

Leaders in the upper chamber of Congress occasionally have to take a political beating to protect their members in tough ...

CNN political commentator Van Jones told CNN host Erin Burnett there is a "volanic" level of anger at Senate Majority Leader ...

When McConnell declined to seek the position as Republican leader this past year, instead passing the torch to current Senate Majority Leader John Thune, it was an indication that the self ...

Do we see men of principle only once they’ve announced their retirement?

When Obama picked Merrick Garland to replace Scalia, the one and only person standing in the way was Senate Majority Leader McConnell. Throngs of Democrats and media liberals bayed and howled with ...

The limited public polling indicates voters were set to blame Republicans for the shutdown. A Quinnipiac University survey released Thursday found just 32% of registered voters would have blamed ...

“Leader Schumer sees Leader Jeffries as a new leader who needs to learn a lot about the nuances of governing and negotiating, ...

Kentucky Lt. Gov. Jacqueline Coleman (D) said Sunday that she isn’t running for Sen. Mitch McConnell’s (R-Ky.) seat. “We’re ...

The White House is quietly moving to resume Trump’s transformation of the federal judiciary, but the process looks different this time.

It was McConnell’s driving ambition to be Senate majority leader, and he certainly succeeded there. He became the longest-serving party leader in Senate history, holding the post of Republican ...

McConnell’s tactical success left federal courts short of judges. That led then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to make the difficult decision to end the filibuster so that judicial nominees ...