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“Unpopular view”: McConnell gushes over Sinema as she pushes to hand GOP even more filibuster power

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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., heaped praise on Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., Monday after she resisted her party’s calls to reform the filibuster and helped Republicans block much of President Joe Biden’s first-term agenda. The Republican leader appeared alongside Sinema at the McConnell Center at the University of Louisville, touting the Democrat as “extraordinarily … Read more

South Carolina Senate fails to pass near-total abortion ban after GOP lawmaker filibuster

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CNN — The South Carolina Republican-led Senate was unable to pass a bill Thursday that sought to ban nearly all abortions at every stage of pregnancy without exceptions for rape and incest, instead choosing to amend the state’s already restrictive abortion law, after a handful of GOP senators joined with Democrats to block the bill. … Read more