While the committee’s new leadership isn’t yet official, Collins says her priorities will include helping Maine’s communities, funding biomedical research, improving infrastructure and supporting rural economic development.
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Book says McConnell called Trump ‘stupid’ and ‘narcissist’ after 2020 election
McConnell made the remarks in private as part of a series of personal oral histories that he made available. The biography will be released Oct. 29, one week before Election Day.
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Sen. McConnell’s health episodes show no evidence of strokes or seizures, Capitol physician says
The assessments entailed several medical evaluations including a brain MRI. McConnell fell and suffered a concussion earlier this year.
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McConnell tries to tamp down health concerns after second incident
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is “medically clear” to work, attending physician to Congress says.
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Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell appears to freeze up again while speaking
The latest incident adds to the questions in recent months about McConnell’s health and whether the Kentucky Republican will remain in his leadership post.
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Mitch McConnell released from hospital after suffering concussion in fall
The 81-year-old senator has been hospitalized and receiving treatment for a concussion since late in the evening of March 8.
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Republican rift exposes choice: With Trump or against him
While Donald Trump’s allies believe there should be no limits in their loyalty to the former president, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and other establishment leaders believe there is a line Republicans should not cross.
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Sen. McConnell rebukes Republican National Committee, calls Jan. 6 ‘violent insurrection’
Maine Sen. Susan Collins said that the rioters who ‘broke windows and breached the Capitol were not engaged in legitimate political discourse, and to say otherwise is absurd.’
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Trump hurls insults at McConnell, calls him an ‘unsmiling political hack’
Moments after the Senate voted to acquit Trump on Saturday, top Senate Republican Mitch McConnell gave a floor speech in which he blamed Trump for spreading ‘wild falsehoods’ about a stolen election, creating a ‘manufactured atmosphere of looming catastrophe’ that inspired the mob.
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McConnell votes ‘not guilty,’ then calls Trump actions ‘unconscionable’
He says, ‘We have no power to convict and disqualify a former office holder who is now a private citizen.’