Honorable Mitch McConnell
United States Senator, Kentucky, Republican
Senator McConnell was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1984. He served as County Judge-Executive in Jefferson County, Kentucky, from 1977 to 1984. He sits on the Appropriations Committee, the Agriculture Committee, and the Rules Committee, and is the Minority Leader of the Senate. The following is from the March 27, 2012, Senate floor debate on S. 2204, the Repeal Big Oil Tax Subsidies Act. What we are seeing in the Senate this week is exhibit A in what the American people just don’t like about Congress. Gas prices have more than doubled under President Obama and the Democratic…
