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
I think there are a whole lot of Democrats who never had any idea what was in this bill, at least this year they are reading it." ()
The debt they ran up in the first year of the Obama administration is bigger than the last four years of the Bush combined.
Tiger Woods and John Edwards had a better year than the Stimulus bill.
We're living under the Obama economy. Any CEO in America with a record like this after three years on the job would be graciously shown the door. This president blames the managers instead. He blames the folks on the shop floor. He blames the weather.
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.
America is about to turn the page on Barack Obama's four-year experiment in big government.
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.
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.
We're not quietly killing it; we're proudly killing it. We're not apologizing for killing this unconstitutional bill." ()
There is a lot of room for improvement in Social Security. We owe our children the most financially sound system possible. They will have paid into it their entire working lives. They deserve to be protected by it. for our children and grandchildren.
For four years, Barack Obama has been running from the nation's problems. He hasn't been working to earn reelection. He's been working to earn a spot on the PGA tour.
Things happen in American politics in the political center. If the President will meet us in the center, there are things we can accomplish.
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.