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Honorable Mitch McConnell, Senator, Kentucky, Republican
Sen. McConnell is the senior senator from Kentucky and has served in the Senate since 1985. He is the ranking member of the Senate Committee on Appropriations and also serves on the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry and the Committee on Rules and Administration. The following is an editorial published by McConnell on Feb. 12 titled, “Kentuckians can’t afford the high cost of Trump’s tariffs.” Little under a century ago, an ill-fated law helped spiral the Wall Street crash of 1929 into a worldwide depression. The Smoot-Hawley Tariff encompassed roughly one-quarter of all imports, flaring tensions with…
