Kentucky Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell announced Thursday he’ll become chairman of the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee and the Rules Committee when the new Congress convenes in January.
Caaant leeeet gooo offf POWER
Since some people don’t seem to remember, his replacement is Sen John Thune. He was elected a week or two ago. I have no idea why this article is mentioning at all that he is stepping down as US senate GOP leader because we’ve known that for months.
That’s actuality fairly interesting.
moscow mitch chairing the senate rules committee?
filibuster is (temporarily) dead by february, and will be reinstated right before the session starts after midterms.
how’s that for ‘interesting’?
My understanding is that the Senate Rules committee is lower profile than House Rules because nearly every procedural question in the Senate is settled by unanimous consent.
In the House, the Rules committee decides the floor debate time limits and which amendments are in order on every major legislation. (They do this by passing custom rules for each individual bill).
It’s possible things have changed, or they’re planning some kind of major shift in the normal procedure.
How is this walking skeleton not dead yet
Only the good die young
Probably stem cells from dead babies
Huh, so will his replacement be some trump toadie that’s just going to suspend the Senate so Trump can ram his appointments through?
His replacement is John Thune.
Which, honestly, is the least-worst pick since the MAGATs were pushing for Rick Scott.
Probably, yeah.
My god, just retire and look for a nice female tortoise to start a family
Disagree. We already have an excess of heartless reptiles running around.
“running”. Have you seen the man? He’s not exactly a snapping turtle.
He’s going to be like a Palpatine and come back in ten years in some miraculous unexpected way … probably wearing a cloak and be horribly disfigured
He looks pretty bad already. Worse, and he’s going to need to censor his face in public to maintain decency laws.
Yeah he’s an unholy mix of Palpatine and the goblin king from the hobbit movie.
