GOP faces pressure on Mueller protection bill
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Channel: AP Archive · 2018 · News & Politics
(14 Nov 2018) Senators chose Majority Leader Mitch McConnell for another term leading Republicans and Chuck Schumer for Democrats in closed-door party elections Wednesday that lacked the high drama under way on the House side in the midterm election fallout. McConnell said he'll be talking with Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, after Democrats took control of the House from Republicans in last week's election, on ways to work together. "We'll be looking for ways, now that we have divided government again, to make some progress for the country," he said. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer says President Donald Trump is lying about voter fraud in Florida amid a recount of the Senate race between Democrat Bill Nelson and Republican Rick Scott. Schumer said Wednesday he's confident Nelson will win re-election against Scott, who's Florida's governor. Schumer says Trump and Scott "just lied." He says they "said there's fraud when their own Republican officials in Florida have said there's no fraud." Schumer says Trump and Scott "are trying to shut down the election because they're afraid" of a Nelson victory. Nelson and Scott are in Washington as incumbent and newly elected lawmakers arrive on Capitol Hill. Scott holds the narrowest of leads over Nelson. Senate Republicans welcomed the first woman to their leadership team in years Wednesday as they sought to address the optics of the GOP side of the aisle being dominated by men. Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst called her selection to the leadership ranks "a great honor." "It is a great honor for me to join this tremendous leadership team," Ernst said. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter: https://twitter.com/AP_Archive Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/APArchives Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/APNews/ You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/7fdb1ace0c9e074ba46e33ef66ee4b84
