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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Top U.S. Senate Republican Mitch McConnell said on Wednesday he will step down this year from his leadership role, ending a record-setting tenure and ceding more influence to ...
Mr McConnell's two-year term ends in January 2025. He defeated Democratic challenger Amy McGrath in 2020, and won another six-year term. It is unclear if he will seek re-election once his term ...
McConnell suggested he would finish out his term as senator, which ends in January 2026. "I’ll finish the job the people of Kentucky hired me to do as well, albeit from a different seat," he said.
He has not said whether he plans to seek reelection to the Senate — his current term ends at the end of 2026 — but would be 84 at the time of that election.
Key issues for the election include the proposed implementation of term-limits for the Senate Republican leader, a proposed expansion of the leaders power over appointments to Senate committees and how to pass president-elect Donald Trump's agenda. [5] [6] [7] The secret ballot election was held on November 13 by a conference of Republican ...
The number of federal judicial vacancies at the end of Obama's term was more than twice the number at the end of George W. Bush's term. [117] [118] In a 2019 interview, McConnell credited himself for the large number of judicial vacancies created in the last two years of Obama's presidency. [90]
Facing questions about his health, Mitch McConnell dismissed questions about retirement, vowing to serve out his Senate term, which ends in January 2027. Facing health questions, Mitch McConnell ...
Trump's ascent proved to be an almost untenable political situation for McConnell — the two men have not spoken since December 2020, when McConnell declared that Biden had legally won that year ...