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Undated: Addison Mitchell 'Mitch' McConnell Jr. (born February 20, 1942) is an American politician serving as Kentucky’s senior United States Senator and as Senate Majority Leader. McConnell is the second Kentuckian to lead his party in the Senate and is the longest-serving U.S. Senator from Kentucky in history.
A member of the Republican Party, McConnell was first elected to the Senate in 1984 and has been re-elected five times since then. During the 1998 and 2000 election cycles, McConnell was chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. McConnell was first elected as Majority Whip in the 108th Congress and was re-elected to the post in 2004. In November 2006, McConnell was elected Senate Minority Leader; he held that post until 2015, when Republicans took control of the Senate and he became Senate Majority Leader.
McConnell was known as a pragmatist and moderate Republican early in his political career but veered to the right over time. McConnell led opposition to stricter campaign finance laws, culminating in the Supreme Court ruling that partially overturned the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (McCain-Feingold) in 2009. During the Obama presidency, McConnell worked to withhold Republican support for major presidential initiatives; made frequent use of the filibuster; and blocked an unprecedented number of Obama's judicial nominees, including Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland. In 2015, McConnell was included in the Time 100 annual list of the most influential people in the world.
McConnell endorsed Rand Paul in the 2016 Republican primaries before ultimately supporting then-presumptive nominee Donald Trump. In 2016, after being approached by U.S. intelligence community officials, McConnell refused to give a bipartisan statement with President Obama warning Russia not to interfere in the upcoming election. During the Trump presidency, Senate Republicans, under McConnell's leadership, broke records on the number of judicial nominees confirmed; those nominees included Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, each of whom was confirmed to the Supreme Court. McConnell later described his decision to block the Garland nomination as "the most consequential decision I've made in my entire public career."
In June 2018, McConnell became the longest-serving Republican U.S. Senate leader in the history of the United States. McConnell's approval rating, as reflected by both national and statewide poll results, is consistently among the lowest of all senators.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitch_McConnell
Undated: Elaine Lan Chao [wife of Mitch McConnell] (born March 26, 1953)[2] is the current United States Secretary of Transportation. A member of the Republican Party, Chao was previously a Cabinet member in the administration of President George W. Bush. Chao served as Secretary of Labor under President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2009, and as Deputy Secretary of Transportation and Director of the Peace Corps under President George H. W. Bush.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elaine_Chao
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January 29: These are Mitch McConnell’s nefarious links to Putin, Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska and Russian companies
There always seems to be more to the story when it comes to Trump and Russia, and this time it involves Senate Leader Mitch McConnell.
Monday evening brought a new twist in that one of Mitch McConnell’s major donors, Len Blavatnik, who is tied to Vladimir Putin and all kinds of Russian oligarchs, benefited when Trump and McConnell lifted Russian sanctions on Sunday.
https://www.alternet.org/2019/01/these-are-mitch-mcconnells-nefarious-linked-to-putin-russian-oligarch-oleg-deripaska-and-russian-companies/
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