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I think we can do both, i think we need to move toward beginning to reopen the economy, consistent with the recommendations of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, and of course, the advice we've been given is from the healthcare professionals.... I think we can do both. Dr. Fauci has indicated, we can do both.
– Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We must act quickly to clean up the mess and renew these authorities.
– Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
We are going to make sure it is the trial lawyers, and not struggling job creators, that will need to clear a very high legal burden.
– Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
We're going to insist on doing narrowly targeted legislation if and when we do legislate again and we may well.
– Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I think it's a little bit classless, frankly, to critique an administration that comes after you, you had your shot, you were there for eight years. I think the tradition that the Bush's set up -- of not critiquing the president who comes after you -- is a good tradition.
– Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
Found on CNN 4 years ago
There probably will be another state and local funding bill.
– Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I would certainly be in favor of allowing states to use the bankruptcy route, it saves some cities. And there's no good reason for it not to be available.
– Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
Found on CNN 4 years ago
There is no time to insist on sweeping renegotiations or ultimatums about other policies, clean funding for worker pay in a crisis should not be controversial.
– Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The markets are tanking once again because this body can't get its act together, this has to stop.
– Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
Found on CNN 4 years ago
The American people are watching this spectacle. I'm told the futures market is down 5 %, the notion that we have time to play games here with the American economy and The American people is utterly absurd.
– Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We need to signal to the public that were ready to get this job done.
– Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
There are at least five senators in self-quarantine. we need to signal to the public that were ready to get this job done.
– Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
We're not talking about so-called bailouts for firms that made reckless decisions, we're not talking about a taxpayer-funded cushion for companies that made mistakes. We're talking about loans which must be repaid.
– Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Let me just report that we are continuing to make good progress, all of the discussions have been in good faith and so that's all I can report at the moment, but I think we're clearly going to get there.
– Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I am glad talks are ongoing between Small Business Administration and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. I hope Congress can pass bipartisan legislation to continue combating the coronavirus and keep our economy strong.
– Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Look, if you become the frontrunner you come under a lot of scrutiny, from the press, from both sides.
– Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The speaker of The House says that Senate Republicans refuses to accept this acquittal, whatever that means. Perhaps Senate Republicans will tear up the verdict like Senate Republicans tore up the State of the Union address. So I would ask my distinguished colleagues across the aisle, is this really, really where you want to go ?
– Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
Found on CNN 5 years ago
Listen, we voted, it's time to move on... as far as I'm concerned it's in the rearview mirror.
– Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
Found on CNN 5 years ago
It could dramatically change the separation of powers between the White House and the Senate if the Senate agrees we will conduct both the investigation and the trial of an impeachment, what's more, some of the proposed new witnesses include executive branch officials whose communications with the President and with other executive branch officials lie at the very core of the President's constitutional privilege.
– Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
Found on CNN 5 years ago
We're going to have a similar resolution, it may not be word for word, exactly the same, but a similar resolution. And we'll be glad to show it to you when -- when we unveil it.
– Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
Found on CNN 5 years ago
There's real business for the American people that the United States Senate needs to complete. If the speaker continues to refuse to take her own accusations to trial, the Senate will move forward next week with the business of our people.
– Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Speaker Pelosi is now sitting on the articles Speaker Pelosi claimed were so very urgent. Speaker Pelosi's delayed this indefinitely so that the architects of the failed House process can look for ways to reach over here into The Senate and dictate our process as well, these bizarre stunts do not serve our Constitution or our national security. They erode both.
– Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
Found on CNN 5 years ago
The Senate has a unanimous bipartisan precedent for when to handle mid-trial questions such as witnesses. In the middle of the trial.
– Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
Found on CNN 5 years ago
The same people who spent weeks screaming that impeachment was so urgent now decided it could wait indefinitely while they check the political winds and look for some new talking points.
– Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
As I've said before, the Senate will revisit this important issue over the current work period, we'll give Democrats another opportunity to end their filibuster of funding that's critical to controlling Zika and supporting our veterans.
– Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
All of us came here from somewhere else.
– Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I am concerned about the Hispanic vote, America is changing.
– Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I think anything that divides this sort of right-of-center world is not helpful, and I don’t think it’s a good idea to do anything that helps us elect Hillary Clinton.
– Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
I have committed to supporting the nominee chosen by Republican voters, and Never Trump, Never Trump, is now on the verge of clinching that nomination, as Never Trump, Never Trump now has the opportunity and the obligation to unite our party around our goals.
– Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Senate races are statewide races, you can craft your own message for your own people. And that's exactly what we intend to do this fall, no matter who the nominee is.
– Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I can't imagine that a Republican majority Congress in a lame duck session after the American people have spoken would want to confirm a nominee opposed by the NRA, the NFIB, and the New York Times says would move the court dramatically to the left, this nomination ought to be made by the next president.
– Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I cannot imagine that the Republican-majority Senate, even if it were soon to be a minority, would want to confirm a judge that would move the court dramatically to the left.
– Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
The president nominates. The Senate confirms. The American people should have a voice, not this lame duck president out the door.
– Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
I took the opportunity to recommend to him that no matter who may be triggering these violent expressions or conflicts that we've seen in some of these rallies it might be a good idea to condemn that and discourage it no matter what the source of it is.
– Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
Found on CNN 8 years ago
What they want is to provide for their families, but here's how more Democrats seem to view these hard-working Americans and their families: just statistics, just the cost of doing business, just obstacles to their ideology, this is callous. It is wrong. And it underlines the need to stand up for hard-working, middle-class coal families.
– Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
Found on CNN 8 years ago
There has been a lot of talk in the last 24 hours about one of our presidential candidates and his seeming ambivalence about David Duke and the KKK, so let me make it perfectly clear, that is not the view of Republicans who have been elected to the United States Senate, and I condemn his views in the most forceful way.
– Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I don't know how many times we need to keep saying this: The Judiciary Committee has unanimously recommended to me that there be no hearing. I've said repeatedly and I'm now confident that my conference agrees that this decision ought to be made by the next president, whoever is elected.
– Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Presidents have a right to nominate just as the Senate has its constitutional right to provide or withhold consent, in this case, the Senate will withhold it.
– Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
Found on CNN 9 years ago
The American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice. Therefore, this vacancy should not be filled until we have a new President.
– Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
Found on CNN 9 years ago
The Internet is a resource used daily by Americans of all ages across the country, it's important that they be able to do all of this without the worry of their Internet taxes being taxed.
– Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Not only will this bipartisan legislation help bring our energy policies in line with the demands of today, it will also help position us to benefit from the opportunities of tomorrow.
– Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
What's good for the goose is good for the gander.
– Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I just don't think the Senate ought to get into the middle of this, these guys are all slugging it out in Iowa and New Hampshire. We'll have a nominee, hopefully, by sometime in the spring.
– Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Let's not delay or hasten the timetable for a vote.
– Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
As I've said, there are many concerns up here on the Hill with this agreement -- from Democrats and Republicans alike. But trade is critically important to our economy and national security. So I think the president should consult with Congress on the timing and path forward on this important issue.
– Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
Found on CNN 9 years ago
The next president, whoever that is, will have the authority to either revisit this one, if it doesn't pass, or finish the European deal or other deals, and give Congress a chance to weigh in on it.
– Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
Found on CNN 9 years ago
The way to achieve EXIM, if it's going to be achieved in the Senate, is in the context of the highway bill.
– Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I support eliminating the oil export ban.
– Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
You could shut down the government and that will not defund Planned Parenthood, so that is a strategy that will not lead to a result that I would like. Shutting down the government is something the American people overwhelmingly oppose, and we will not be doing that.
– Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
Found on CNN 9 years ago
We are going to have to have a negotiation about how much we are going to spend in discretionary accounts of the government this year. And all of that will commence sometime after this fiscal year, i think the Speaker and myself and the White House are going to have to discuss how to resolve our differences.
– Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Well you know, mistakes are made in warfare, the drone is another weapon. It's used obviously to try and minimize collateral damage. Americans like minimizing collateral damage. I think it's a part of our toolbox that we should use against terrorists. I think there is plenty of oversight and we are always going to look when mistakes are made. I think it's appropriate for Congress to take a look at it.
– Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I think we have an obligation to take some number of refugees, we've done that in these situations in the past. It is important to remember why this is all happening, because the President is falling behind, leading from behind. The Middle East is in turmoil. And our policy of talking to our enemies and leaving our friends behind has contributed to all of this meltdown.
– Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
Found on CNN 9 years ago
He supported -- contributed -- to my campaign last year, i appreciate it.
– Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
Found on CNN 9 years ago
It wouldn't produce the result that Sen. Cruz and I would both like to produce, so therefore, it would be an exercise in futility.
– Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
Found on CNN 9 years ago
It's an agreement between Barack Obama and the Iranian regime, and it will be reviewed again in a year and a half from now. It doesn't have the force of law that a treaty would've had. So his deal is a unilateral deal with Iran is something that he can try to implement over the next year and a half. And if the next president wants to take a look at it, (he or she) is free to do it.
– Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
Found on CNN 9 years ago
That's an absurd argument, and it's the one they've made from the very beginning, that it's either what the President negotiates with the Iranians or it's war, that's never been the alternative.
– Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I can tell you without fear of contradiction there will be no government shutdown.
– Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
Found on CNN 9 years ago
That's an absurd argument and it's the one they've made from the very beginning, that it's either what the President negotiates with the Iranians or it's war, that's never been the alternative.
– Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Let me suggest that had the President and his team spent as much time trying to ratchet up the sanctions on the Iranians over the last two years as they have entering into an agreement, which most of us are highly skeptical of as to having any positive impact at all, we'd have ended up in better place.
– Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I will do everything I can to stop it.
– Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The test of the agreement should be whether it leaves our country and our allies safer.
– Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We already know (any deal) leaves Iran as a threshold nuclear state.
– Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Democrats will likely have the same concerns, i hope Democrats look at this objectively and say, ‘This is not good.’.
– Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
The politicians who forced Obamacare on the American people now have a choice: crow about Obamacare's latest wobble towards the edge, or work with us to address the ongoing negative impact of a 2,000-page law that continues to make life miserable for too many of the same people it purported to help.
– Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
Found on CNN 9 years ago
So it has to be explained better to the American people. That is a job for those of us in Congress, and it's also a job for the president of the United States.
– Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
Found on CNN 9 years ago
One hundred and ninety Republicans voted for it in the House. How can Republicans over here say that's not good enough?
– Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
Found on CNN 9 years ago
The Senate will finish its work on trade this week, and we will remain in session as long as it takes to do so, i would advise against making any sort of travel arrangements until the path forward becomes clear.
– Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I don't want us to go dark, i'm afraid the House-passed bill will basically be the end of the program and we'll not be able to have yet another tool that we need to combat this terrorist threat from overseas.
– Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
Found on CNN 9 years ago
What we just saw here is pretty shocking.
– Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
Found on CNN 9 years ago
It's incredibly important for American workers that we pass this bill.
– Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
Found on CNN 9 years ago
The so-called Trans-Pacific Partnership would lower unfair trade barriers to American-made goods and American produce sold in the Pacific. That would represent a huge win for American workers and American farmers, to say nothing of the far-reaching geopolitical implications for our country.
– Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
Found on CNN 9 years ago
The United States is currently negotiating an agreement with a whole host of Pacific nations -- not just Japan and Australia, but also countries like Canada and Chile -- that would cement and enhance our role in the world's fastest-growing region, the so-called Trans-Pacific Partnership would lower unfair trade barriers to American-made goods and American produce sold in the Pacific. That would represent a huge win for American workers and American farmers, to say nothing of the far-reaching geopolitical implications for our country.
– Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
Found on CNN 9 years ago
The Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act will ensure Congress gets a vote to either approve or disapprove of the comprehensive agreement.
– Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
Found on CNN 9 years ago
No budget will ever be perfect, but this is a budget that sensibly addresses the concerns of many different members. It reflects honest compromise from many different members with many different priorities.
– Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Of course we've heard of an attempt to stand in the way of an effort to pass this bipartisan legislation.
– Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
This Finance Committee meeting obviously will be open to the public. There will be many, many amendments offered, most of them I suspect reflecting the views of the senator from Vermont. But the meeting will go forward, the committee will simply be inconvenienced by the current actions, the committee will meet at the earliest possible time and finish up the bill today.
– Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
Found on CNN 9 years ago
That there is not a lot of transparency. So what we are trying to do here is make sure that this debate takes place out in the public, that the American people have as much time as possible to understand the very significant ramifications of this trade agreement. I, and I suspect others, will do our best to make that happen.
– Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
Found on CNN 9 years ago
The committee will meet at the earliest possible time and finish up the bill today.
– Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
Found on CNN 9 years ago
They all voted for the very same language in a bill in December, this is boilerplate language that has been in the law for almost 40 years that they all voted for three months ago in another bill.
– Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
I had hoped to turn to her next week, but, if we cannot finish the trafficking bill, she will be put off again.
– Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
This will have an impact on the timing of considering the new attorney general.
– Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
We're alarmed about it, a number of Democrats are alarmed about it -- we will be acting.
– Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
Found on CNN 9 years ago
All of this is a distraction away from the point here.
– Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
Found on CNN 9 years ago
The President is about to make what we believe is a very bad deal. He clearly doesn't want Congress involved at all. And we're worried about it.
– Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Why would they use some dispute like this, some controversy like this...to get in the way of their judgment [on Iran's nuclear program], we're alarmed about it, a number of Democrats are alarmed about it -- we will be acting.
– Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I made it very clear after the November (2014) election we're certainly not going to shut down the government or default on the national debt.
– Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The debt ceiling will be handled over a period of months.
– Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The American public wants us to look at what we can agree on.
– Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
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