The Lions, with the first overall selection in the draft, agreed to a 6-year, $78 million deal with $41.7 million guaranteed with Stafford a day before the draft officially started. By agreeing to the deal, Stafford had already been chosen as the first overall pick in the draft.n the supplemental draft, a team is not required to use any picks. Instead, if a team wants a player in the supplemental draft, they submit a bid to the Commissioner with the round they would pick that player.
Mitch McConnell is not actively pulling back from Donald Trump, but he is counseling individual senators how to proceed. McConnell goes underground on Trump. Unlike Paul Ryan, the Senate GOP leader is keeping a low profile as the nominee's campaign nosedives.
They said they were going to do it and by golly, the Republicans appear to be following through. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has triggered the so-called ânuclear option,â countering Democrats who bowed down to the extreme wing of their party by filibustering Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch. The Democrat filibuster temporarily halted the confirmation of Gorsuch, due to Republicans controlling only 52 seats in the Senate.