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and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s parallel rise in their respective parties’ leadership on each side of the Capitol.“Sometimes we agreed, sometimes we didn’t,” she began, offering praise for McConnell’s support for aid to Ukraine. “The sad part of it is, Mitch McConnell knows full well that the president was guilty of a crime on Jan. 6.”
Both McConnell, 82, and Pelosi, 83, are winding down their time in Washington. Pelosi stepped down as House speaker last year, although she is running for another term in Congress as Democrats seek to take control of the House. McConnell, meanwhile, has pledged to serve out the remaining three years of his current term, but said he plans to step down from his leadership role after this November’s election.
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