Mitch McConnell: “In our society, spending is speech.”

But, my, how times have changed. Today, western Kentucky is a conservative Republican sea of red.

When I first attended forty-two years ago, Fancy Farm was a pretty lonely place to be a Republican.

You’re right to expect your representatives to work hard for you. And part of my decision to retire at the end of my term this coming January was being honest about the demands of Senate work.

There’s no place I’d rather be on the first Saturday in August than with the good people of western Kentucky, feasting on pork and mutton.