But Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky wasn't mollified.

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While one Democratic source said the Senate version could get taken up in the House if Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell or Boehner don't raise a blue-slip objection, Republican sources rejected that scenario.

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And one of the things that John Boehner and Mitch McConnell both said is they didn't think that the status quo was acceptable, and that's, right there, promising.

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"I don't believe the world will end, " Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Tuesday.

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Mitch showed well in his Westminster debut, but didn't bring home a ribbon.

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And wouldn't you know -- he turns out to be Dan's younger brother Mitch (Dane Cook), a reformed skirt-chaser who announces himself besotted.

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Mitch Rothholz, a spokesman for the American Pharmacists Association, said pharmacy errors aren't common, but that there are things patients can do to make sure the medicine inside a bottle is the right drug.

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Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell gave 107 floor speeches on health care, and 25 speeches on why we shouldn't close the prison camp at Guantanamo.

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So, ultimately, if Mitch McConnell or John Boehner say, we need to go to catch a plane, I can't have Secret Service block the doorway, right?

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