Mitch McConnell
Mitch McConnell
Addison Mitchell "Mitch" McConnell, Jr.is the senior United States Senator from Kentucky. A member of the Republican Party, he has been the Majority Leader of the Senate since January 3, 2015. He is the 15th Senate Republican Leader and the second Kentuckian to lead his party in the Senate. He is also the longest-serving U.S. Senator in Kentucky history...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth20 February 1942
CitySheffield, AL
CountryUnited States of America
It's a shame that the president doesn't embrace the effort to reduce spending. None of us like using situations like the sequester or the debt ceiling or the operation of government to try to engage the president to deal with this.
After adding trillions to the debt on big-government policies most Americans didn't ask for and which we couldn't afford, Democratic leaders say they need more money, which they intend to take from small business, even though small businesses create the majority of new jobs.
The bill that job creators and out-of-work Americans need us to pass is the one that ensures taxes won't go up - one that says Americans and small-business owners won't get hit with more bad news at the end of the year.
The money that goes into Social Security is not the government's money. it's your money. You paid for it.
We hear the stories every day now: the father who puts on a suit every morning and leaves the house so his daughter doesn't know he lost his job, the recent college grad facing up to the painful reality that the only door that's open to her after four years of study and a pile of debt is her parents'. These are the faces of the Obama economy.
Public disclosure of campaign contributions and spending should be expedited so voters can judge for themselves what is appropriate.
I've often wished we had more women in the Senate.
I'm really proud of this Supreme Court and the way they've been dealing with the issue of First Amendment political speech.
The White House has a choice: They can change course, or they can double down on a vision of government that the American people have roundly rejected.
Obama hasn't been working to earn reelection, he's been working to earn a spot on the PGA tour!
The debt they ran up in the first year of the Obama administration is bigger than the last four years of the Bush combined.
We're not quietly killing it; we're proudly killing it. We're not apologizing for killing this unconstitutional bill." ()
You cannot create a level playing field; it is impossible," ()
We need to strengthen and save Social Security for today's workers. If we don't act now, this system, born out of the New Deal, will become a bad deal.