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Mitch McConnell

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Mitch McConnell is an American politician serving as the senior United States senator from Kentucky, a position he has held since 1985. A member of the Republican Party, McConnell has played a significant role in shaping legislative priorities and has served as the Senate Majority Leader since January 2015. Throughout his tenure, he has been involved in key policy areas including healthcare, tax reform, and judicial appointments. McConnell is known for his strategic leadership and has been a prominent figure in national politics, particularly during contentious legislative battles.

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Dec 2, 2021

Mitch McConnell admits Republicans are not even going to run on ideas.

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Dec 1, 2021

the culmination of a half century of work on the part of conservatives to get to this point where they could overturn or at least, you know, take out a lot of the fundamental tenets of Roe v. Wade.

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Dec 1, 2021

We're not going to have a shutdown. That's a terrible idea. That's really stupid.

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Nov 30, 2021

Look, I think we all know the situation where not a single Republican in the Senate is going to vote for this reckless tax and spending spree. We all know it only would take one Democrat tank it. Most of us feel that the single best thing…

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Nov 16, 2021

But then, what happened is, he goes to Mar-a-Lago, and somehow the hold on the party faithful is still there, and McConnell reverses course.

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Nov 16, 2021

It's not good for you. It's not good for the party. Whatever you or I think of him, enough.

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Nov 11, 2021

This bill was crafted in the Senate, 19 Republicans voted for it, I was one of them, I think it was good for the country and I`m glad to it passed.

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Nov 11, 2021

Mitch McConnell is calling the Biden bipartisan infrastructure bill a godsend in Kentucky, but he says he won`t attend the bill signing ceremony for the Biden infrastructure bill, the bill he voted for.

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Nov 9, 2021

This will be the first time I have come up here and in a quarter-of-a-century when I thought maybe there was a way forward on the Brent Spence Bridge.

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Nov 9, 2021

Infrastructure, however, enjoys 75% approval rating passed on a bipartisan basis. And I think it was the right thing to do.

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Nov 8, 2021

It’s a godsend for Kentucky.

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Nov 4, 2021

Practically, every single week, Senate Democrats make another attempt at grabbing new power over America`s elections.

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Nov 3, 2021

Getting a result on this massive reckless tax and spending bill is not going to improve their position with the American people. I think the best advice I can give them politically after yesterday, they ought to drop the whole thing.

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Oct 26, 2021

They’re now proposing to tax money the American people haven’t even made yet.

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Oct 26, 2021

The far left is officially calling the shots.

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Oct 25, 2021

This harebrained scheme would have the IRS penalized people who’ve invested wisely and compensating people who have invested poorly.

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Oct 19, 2021

That is how Mitch McConnell got the nickname Moscow Mitch.

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Oct 19, 2021

I think the American people are focusing on this administration, what it’s doing to the country. And it’s my hope that the '22 election will be a referendum on the performance of the current administration, not a rehash of suggestions…

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Oct 19, 2021

Joe Manchin will stay a Democrat because, quite simply, he has nowhere to go.

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Oct 19, 2021

He has no future as a Republican in West Virginia. He could not win a Republican primary.

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Oct 13, 2021

Mitch McConnell basically called out for criminal prosecution of Donald Trump.

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Oct 11, 2021

There`s not a single senator in the majority who thinks we ought to change the legislative filibuster, not one.

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Oct 11, 2021

Let me be crystal clear about this. Republicans are united in opposition to raising the debt ceiling. We will not support legislation that raises the debt limit. They will not get Senate Republicans` help with raising that.

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Oct 8, 2021

I will not be a party to any future effort to mitigate the consequences of democratic mismanagement. Your lieutenants on Capitol Hill now have the time they claim they lack to address the debt ceiling.

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Oct 7, 2021

the party that pumped itself up on the ideas of family values and fiscal probity only for Mitch McConnell and his ghoul army to play a game of chicken with the debt ceiling and nearly tanking the economy and country with it with only 11…

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