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Senate Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell of Ky., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, May 24, 2016. From left are, Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., McConnell, and Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn of Texas. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) ** FILE **

Zika virus spending package sitting in partisan gridlock

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Senate Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell of Ky., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, May 24, 2016. From left are, Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., McConnell, and Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn of Texas. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) ** FILE **

Mitch McConnell: I don’t think Donald Trump will change the GOP ‘in any fundamental way’

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

Sen. Marco Rubio, Florida Republican (Associated Press/File)

Mitch McConnell: ‘We’re all lobbying hard’ for Marco Rubio to run for re-election in Florida

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

President Obama makes a statement to reporters as Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky looks on after a meeting regarding the BP Deepwater Horizon in the Cabinet Room at the White House in Washington on June 10, 2010. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Obama tells student journalists Mitch McConnell is unfair

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Republican presidential candidate, Ohio Gov. John Kasich speaks during a town hall at Savage Mill in Savage, Md., Wednesday, April 13, 2016. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

John Kasich knocks Ted Cruz for accusing Mitch McConnell of lying

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis., left, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky. walk in the U.S. Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Inside the Beltway: Feisty conservatives demand Congress skip lame duck session

By Jennifer Harper - The Washington Times

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., second from left, accompanied by Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., left, Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., second from right, and Majority Whip John Cornyn of Texas, right, walk to news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, April 5, 2016, following a policy luncheon. McConnell took questions on the potential for hearings on Merrick Garland as President Barack Obama's nominee to the Supreme Court, his relationship to Republican presidential candidates and other topics. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Mitch McConnell: Dem nominees for Supreme Court are never ‘moderate’

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

In this March 1, 2016, photo, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., talks to reporters following a closed-door policy meeting at the Capitol in Washington. The Supreme Court fight is about to get personal. Republicans prepared March 14 to unleash a torrent of activity opposing President Barack Obama's nominee to replace the late Justice Antonin Scalia. As the president neared an announcement, Obama's allies, too, were priming for an election-year fight. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

JUDSON PHILLIPS: Mitch McConnell, conservative hero?

By Judson Phillips

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., flanked by Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., left, and Majority Whip John Cornyn, R-Texas, right, talks to reporters following a closed-door policy meeting at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, March 15, 2016. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **

Mitch McConnell, Senate Reublican leader: No lame-duck vote on Obama’s Supreme Court pick

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Democrats call on Senate GOP to hold hearings for Obama’s Supreme Court nominee

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

President Obama is on a media blitz to pressure the Senate Republican leadership to schedule a confirmation hearing and vote on Judge Merrick Garland, who has been waiting seven weeks for action. (Associated Press/File)

Merrick Garland nominated to Supreme Court by Obama

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis., left, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky. walk in the U.S. Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

McConnell backs Speaker Ryan’s outreach to GOP contenders

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama pauses as he answers questions from members of the media during his meeting with Jordan's King Abdullah II in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2016. Obama urged the Republican-run Senate to fulfill its "constitutional responsibility" and consider his Supreme Court nominee, pushing back on GOP leaders who insist there will be no hearing or vote when he names a successor to the late Justice Antonin Scalia. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama to meet with GOP leaders on court fight

By Kathleen Hennessey - Associated Press

House Speaker Paul Ryan, Wisconsin Republican, speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington on Jan. 12, 2016. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Paul Ryan touts an ‘inspiring’ 2016

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., speaks with reporters after the Senate gave sweeping approval to a year-end budget package that boosts federal agency spending and awards tax cuts to both families and an array of business interests, at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, Dec. 18, 2015. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **

Mitch McConnell says Obama’s ISIS plan is too timid

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., speaks with reporters after the Senate gave sweeping approval to a year-end budget package that boosts federal agency spending and awards tax cuts to both families and an array of business interests, at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, Dec. 18, 2015. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **

Mitch McConnell, Senate majority leader, won’t hit back at Ted Cruz

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

House Speaker Paul D. Ryan, Wisconsin Republican, cajoled 150 from his party to join Democrats in voting for the spending measure, earning more support from his usually rebellious troops than Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican, was able to manage in the more staid upper chamber. (Associated Press)

Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell win tax battles, Republican Party unity despite concessions

By Stephen Dinan and Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., speaks with reporters after the Senate gave sweeping approval to a year-end budget package that boosts federal agency spending and awards tax cuts to both families and an array of business interests, at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, Dec. 18, 2015. President Obama will sign the measure, which includes many of the spending increases he fought for all year and is largely free of GOP attempts to block his moves on the environment, financial regulation, and consumer protection. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Mitch McConnell takes 2015 victory lap

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Nearly all of the priorities cited by the White House were accomplished through executive action, or involved treaty-like agreements that President Obama purposely crafted to avoid the need for congressional approval. (Associated Press)

Obama won all year long over GOP, White House crows

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

U.S. President Barack Obama speaks during a news conference at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Centre, in Paris, in this Dec. 1, 2015, file photo. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

White House urges Congress not to delay action on free-trade deal

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times