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
All Citizens United did was to level the playing field for corporate speech. We now have, I think, the most free and open system we've had in modern times.
You'll regret this, and you may regret this a lot sooner than you think.
Forcing free market plans to compete with these government-run programs would create an unlevel playing field and inevitably doom true competition...
For everybody who thinks it's warming, I can find somebody who thinks it isn't.
I think some of our members may have thought the default issue was a hostage you might take a chance at shooting. Most of us didn’t think that. What we did learn is this — it’s a hostage that’s worth ransoming. And it focuses the Congress on something that must be done.
What we do know is that the American people, regardless of how they feel about the abortion issue, don't think that taxpayer money ought to be used to pay for abortions.
I'm in favor of doing tax reform, but I think tax reform ought to be revenue neutral as it was back during the [Ronald] Reagan years. We've resolved this issue.
Americans don't think we should be raising taxes on anybody, especially in the middle of a recession.
The biggest problem confronting the country is our excessive spending. If we're not going to deal with it now, when are we going to deal with it? And we've watched the government explode over the last four years. We've dealt with the revenue issue.
It took us in this country 11 years to get from the Declaration of Independence to the Constitution.