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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (Associated Press) **FILE**

Mitch McConnell: ‘Perplexed’ by Obama’s ‘dramatic move to the left’ after ‘butt-kicking’

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

Sen. Rand Paul, Kentucky Republican. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Rand Paul: ‘Definitely running for re-election’

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (Associated Press) **FILE**

Mitch McConnell to Senate: No more Fridays off

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Prior to the Senate's vote on the Keystone XL oil pipeline, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky. walks to his office on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2014. Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., chair of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, the bill's sponsor, has 59 votes ready and is searching for the last vote needed for approval. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Mitch McConnell: Obama’s executive action will lead to immigrant deaths

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (Associated Press) **FILE**

GOP will turn ‘nuclear option’ to its advantage

By S.A. Miller - The Washington Times

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 13, 2014, after Senate Republicans voted on leadership positions for the 114th Congress.. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

GOP vows to pass Keystone later if bill fails now

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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (Associated Press)

BRUCE FEIN: Nancy Pelosi insults women

By Bruce Fein

“There is a huge gap between Bill Clinton’s effort to take the Democratic Party to the center and Barack Obama’s effort to take it to the left. So I think, in a funny kind of way, having President Clinton at the Democratic convention may highlight the difference between the two choices,” said former House Speaker Newt Gingrich. (Raymond Thompson/The Washington Times)

EDITORIAL: Clinton’s lesson of 1994 lost on Obama

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

President Barack Obama gestures while speaking during his and Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves's news conference at the Bank of Estonia in Tallinn, Estonia, Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2014. Wednesday's statement came as U.S. President Barack Obama arrived in Estonia in a show of solidarity with NATO allies who fear they could be the next target of Russia's aggression. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis) **FILE**

White House taunts GOP on climate change: ‘I don’t believe they can stop us’

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

In this photo taken Nov. 4, 2014, Louisiana Republican Senate candidate Rep. Bill Cassidy, R-La. speaks to supporters during his election night watch party in Baton Rouge, La. Republicans have promised Cassidy a seat on the Senate's energy committee if he defeats Sen. Mary Landrieu in the state's runoff election next month. The move undercuts one of Landrieu's chief campaign arguments, that voters in the state with a robust oil and gas industry need her and her seniority on the committee. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

GOP promises Cassidy a committee seat

By MELINDA DESLATTE - Associated Press

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., right, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev., center, listen as President Barack Obama speaks during a meeting with Congressional leaders in the Old Family Dining Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, Nov. 7, 2014. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Mitch McConnell wants ‘Bourbon summit’ with Obama

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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, of California, talks as she and Rep. Steve Israel, D-N.Y., chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee receive updates of Election Eay information from Greg Jackson, field director of Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee at the Democratic Party headquarters in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2014. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Nancy Pelosi slams media for sexism: ‘I was never on the cover of Time’

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

FILE- This June 1, 2014, file photo shows the coal-fired Plant Scherer in operation in Juliette, Ga. A groundbreaking agreement struck Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2014, by the United States and China puts the world's two worst polluters on a faster track to curbing the heat-trapping gases blamed for global warming. (AP Photo/John Amis, File)

TOM BORELLI: The Democrats’ climate change agenda is a loser

By Tom Borelli

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. arrives to speak with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2014, before joining other congressional leaders at the White House for a meeting with President Barack Obama. In advance of the crucial midterm elections, Reid has been criticizing special interest campaign spending as being undemocratic, with a special focus on the billionaire Koch brothers who have contributed large sums to conservative groups that are spending millions against Democratic senators. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Harry Reid vows to cooperate when Dems become Senate minority

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama pauses during a news conference in the East Room of the White House, on Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2014, in Washington. Obama is telling Americans who voted for change: "I hear you." The President said the Republican victories Tuesday in the midterm elections are a sign they want Washington "to get the job done." (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

R. EMMETT TYRRELL JR.: The president of ‘no’

By R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr.

People rally for comprehensive immigration reform, Friday, Nov. 7, 2014, outside of the White House. After the midterm elections immigration groups are pushing for executive action. A theme of the rally was ceasing deportation of parents who are in the United States illegally. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Republican pressure builds to block Obama’s unilateral immigration order

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

In this photo taken Nov. 4, 2014, Louisiana Republican Senate candidate Rep. Bill Cassidy, R-La. speaks to supporters during his election night watch party in Baton Rouge, La. Republicans have promised Cassidy a seat on the Senate's energy committee if he defeats Sen. Mary Landrieu in the state's runoff election next month. The move undercuts one of Landrieu's chief campaign arguments, that voters in the state with a robust oil and gas industry need her and her seniority on the committee. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

GOP promises Cassidy a committee seat

By Melinda Deslatte - Associated Press

President Obama. (Associated Press)

Obama ‘net neutrality’ plan sparks Republican backlash

By Phillip Swarts - The Washington Times

Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina has put a "hold" on Lee Francis Cissna, the nominee for director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, to try to pressure Homeland Security Secretary John F. Kelly to bend to the senator's will and quickly approve thousands of H-2B visas. (Associated Press/File)

Over-the-counter contraception not on Republican agenda

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., speaks to reporters after voting at Briarwood Elementary School in Bowling Green, Ky., on Election Day Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2014. (AP Photo/The Daily News, Austin Anthony)

Mitch McConnell A-OK with Rand Paul for president

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times