The Senate leader’s iron rule held together a fractious GOP conference that ran from squishy centrist to hardline conservative — and somehow managed to deny Barack Obama the revolution he ...

Mitch McConnell's impact ... then-President Barack Obama nominated Merrick Garland to fill the seat. But before Obama could even announce Garland's name, McConnell led Republican senators in ...

McConnell has increasingly ... President Obama’s pick of Merrick Garland to replace the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. WASHINGTON — Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell said Thursday ...

Mitch McConnell’s (R-Ky ... in the corridors of the U.S. Senate, where McConnell wielded power with cold precision. His refusal even to consider Merrick Garland’s nomination to the Supreme ...