Honorable Mitch McConnell
United States Senator, Kentucky, Republican
Senator McConnell was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1984. He served as Chief Legislative Assistant to U.S. Senator Marlow Cook (KY-R) from 1967 to 1970, as Deputy Assistant U.S. Attorney General from 1974 to 1975, and as Jefferson County (Kentucky) Judge-Executive from 1977 to 1984. He is the Majority Whip of the Senate and sits on the Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee; the Appropriations Committee, where he chairs the Subcommittee on Foreign Operations; and the Rules Committee. The following is from a statement delivered on the floor of the Senate on March 9, 2005.I rise to offer an…
