Honorable Mitch McConnell
United States Senator, Kentucky, Republican
Senator McConnell was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1984. He served as County JudgeExecutive in Jefferson County, Kentucky, from 1977 to 1984. He sits on the following committees: Appropriations; Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry; Rules and Administration; and the Select Committee on Intelligence. He is the Minority Leader of the Senate. The following is from the November 21, 2013, Senate floor debate on changing the rules for consideration of presidential nominees. Once again, Senate Democrats are threatening to break the rules of the Senate in order to change the rules of the Senate. And over what? Over a…
