Mitch McConnell |
|
United States Senator
from Kentucky |
Incumbent |
Assumed
office
January 3, 1985
Serving with Rand
Paul |
Preceded
by |
Walter Huddleston |
Senate Minority Leader |
Incumbent |
Assumed
office
January 3, 2007 |
Whip |
Trent Lott
Jon Kyl
John Cornyn |
Preceded
by |
Harry Reid |
Senate Majority Whip |
In
office
January 3, 2003 – January 3, 2007 |
Leader |
Bill Frist |
Preceded
by |
Harry Reid |
Succeeded
by |
Dick Durbin |
Personal details |
Born |
Addison Mitchell McConnell, Jr.
February 20, 1942 (age 72)
Sheffield, Alabama,
U.S. |
Political
party |
Republican |
Spouse(s) |
Sherrill Redmon (1968–1993,
divorced)
Elaine Chao (1993–present) |
Children |
3 |
Residence |
Louisville, Kentucky |
Alma mater |
University of Louisville
University of Kentucky |
Profession |
Lawyer |
Religion |
Southern Baptist |
Signature |
|
Website |
www.McConnell.Senate.gov |
Military service |
Allegiance |
United
States |
Service/branch |
United
States Army |
Years of
service |
1967 |
Unit |
Headquarters, 100th Division,USAR |
Addison Mitchell "Mitch" McConnell,
Jr. (born
February 20, 1942) is the senior United
States Senator from Kentucky.
A member of the Republican
Party, he has been the Minority
Leader of the Senate
since January 3, 2007. First
elected to that position in 2006, he is the 15th Senate Republican
Leader and the second Kentuckian to lead his party in the Senate.
The first, Alben
Barkley, led the Democratic
Party from 1937 to
1949. He is also the longest
serving U.S. Senator in Kentucky history. Currently
he is the 7th
most-senior Senator, as well as the 4th most senior Republican
member.
Early life, education, and military service
McConnell was born on February 20, 1942 in Sheffield,
Alabama in the
hospital in Sheffield, which is now called the Helen Keller
Hospital, and raised as a young child in nearbyAthens. Mitch
McConnell was the son of Addison Mitchell McConnell, and his wife,
Julia (née Shockley). As a youth he overcame polio. His
family moved to Georgia when he was eight.
When he was a
teenager his family arrived in Louisville where he attended duPont
Manual High School. He graduated with honors from the University
of Louisville with a B.A. in political
science in 1964.
McConnell was president of the Student Council of the College of
Arts and Sciences and a member of the Phi
Kappa Tau fraternity.
He has maintained strong ties to hisalma mater and
"remains a rabid fan of its sports teams." Three
years later, McConnell graduated from the University
of Kentucky College of Law, where he was president of the
Student Bar Association.
McConnell
enlisted in the U.S.
Army Reserve at Louisville,
Kentucky during his
last year of law school. He did six months active service at Fort
Knox, thereafter serving the active reserve. He
received an early discharge for optic
neuritis.
Career
In 1967, to gain experience on Capitol
Hill, during his final semester of law school, McConnell was an intern for
Senator John
Sherman Cooper (R-Ky.).
Later, he was an assistant to Senator Marlow
Cook (R-Ky.) and was
a Deputy
Assistant Attorney General under PresidentGerald
R. Ford. From 1978 until his election to the Senate, he was the Jefferson
County Judge/Executive, the former top political office in Jefferson
County, Kentucky, which includes Louisville, the state's largest
city.
U.S. Senate
Elections
In 1984,
McConnell ran for the U.S.
Senate against
two-term Democratic incumbent Walter
"Dee" Huddleston. The election race wasn't decided until the
last returns came in, and McConnell won by a thin margin—only 5,200
votes out of more than 1.8 million votes cast, just over 0.4%. McConnell
was the only Republican Senate challenger to win that year, despite Ronald
Reagan's landslide victory in the presidential election. Part of
McConnell's success came from a series of television campaign spots
called "Where's Dee", which featured a group of bloodhounds trying
to find Huddleston, implying
that Huddleston's attendance record in the Senate was less than
stellar. It is likely that he was helped by Ronald
Reagan's 21-point win in Kentucky that year. His campaign bumper
stickers and television ads asked voters to "Switch to Mitch".
In 1990,
McConnell faced a tough re-election contest against former
Louisville Mayor Harvey
I. Sloane, winning by 4.5 points. In 1996, he soundly defeated Steve
Beshear, even as Bill
Clinton narrowly
carried the state. In keeping with a tradition of humorous and
effective television ads in his campaigns, McConnell's campaign ran
television ads that warned voters to not "Get Besheared" and
included images of sheep being sheared. In 2002, he was re-elected
with the largest majority by a Republican candidate in Kentucky
history. In 2008, McConnell defeated Democratic opponent Bruce
Lunsford in the
general election.
During the 1998 and 2000 election cycles,
McConnell was chairman of the National
Republican Senatorial Committee. Republicans maintained control
of the Senate in both. He was first elected as Majority Whip in the
108th Congress and unanimously re-elected on November 17, 2004.
Senator Bill
Frist, the Majority Leader, did not seek re-election in the 2006
elections. In November 2006, after Republicans lost control of
the Senate, they elected McConnell to replace Frist as Minority
Leader.
In the 2014
election, McConnell will face Louisville businessman Matt
Bevin in the
Republican primary. Alison
Lundergan Grimes,Greg Leichty, and
Bennie J. Smith are running
in the Democratic primary; Ed Marksberry will challenge McConnell in
the general election running as an Independent.
In April
2014, McConnell received the endorsement of the National
Rifle Association for
his re-election.
Tenure
McConnell stands in front
and directly to the right of President Obama as he signs
tax cuts and unemployment insurance legislation on
December 17, 2010.
McConnell has supported nuclear arms
control initiatives such as the START I treaty, which he voted for
in 1992, describing it as "an outstanding agreement".
McConnell is
also well known for his opposition to campaign finance regulation on
First Amendment grounds. He argues that regulations reduce
participation in political campaigns and protect incumbents from
competition. He spearheaded
the movement against the Bipartisan
Campaign Reform Act (known
since 1995 as the "McCain–Feingold bill" and from 1989–1994 as the
"Boren–Mitchell bill"), calling it "neither fair, nor balanced, nor
constitutional." His
opposition to the bill culminated in the 2003 Supreme Court case McConnell
v. Federal Election Commissionand the 2009 Citizens
United v. Federal Election Commission.
McConnell
opposed the Flag
Desecration Amendment in
2000. According to McConnell: "We must curb this reflexive practice
of attempting to cure each and every political and social ill of our
nation by tampering with the Constitution. The Constitution of this
country was not a rough draft. It was not a rough draft and we
should not treat it as such." McConnell offered an amendment to the
measure that would have made flag desecration a statutory crime,
illegal without amending the Constitution.
In August
2001, McConnell introduced the Common Sense Medical Malpractice
Reform Act of 2001. The bill would require that a health care
liability action must be initiated within two years, non-economic
damages may not exceed $250,000, and punitive damages may only be
awarded in specified situations.
In July 2003,
McConnell sponsored the Small Business Liability Reform Act of 2003.
The bill would protect small businesses from litigation excesses and
limit the liability of non-manufacturer product sellers.
In August
2007 McConnell introduced the Protect
America Act of 2007, which allowed the National
Security Agency to
monitor telephone and electronic communications of suspected
terrorists outside the United States without obtaining a warrant.
McConnell was
the writer of the Gas Price Reduction Act of 2008. The GPRA calls
for more offshore and domestic oil exploration, to try to curb
rising gas prices.
In June 2008,
McConnell introduced the Alternative Minimum Tax and Extenders Tax
Relief Act of 2008. The bill was intended to limit the impact of the
Alternative Minimum Tax.
In September 2010, McConnell sponsored
the Tax Hike Prevention Act of 2010. The bill would have permanently
extended the tax relief provisions of 2001 and 2003 and provided
permanent Alternative Minimum Tax and estate tax relief.
McConnell
opposed President Obama's health reform legislation; he voted
against the Patient
Protection and Affordable Care Act (commonly
called ObamaCare or the Affordable Care Act) in December 2009, and
he voted against the Health
Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010.
In June 2011,
McConnell introduced a Constitutional Balanced Budget Amendment. The
amendment would require two-thirds votes in Congress to increase
taxes or for federal spending to exceed the current year's tax
receipts or 18% of the prior year's GDP. The amendment specifies
situations when these requirements would be waived.
In December
2012, McConnell called for a vote on giving the president unilateral
authority to raise the federal debt ceiling. When Sen.Harry
Reid (D-NV) called
for an up or down vote, Senator McConnell objected to the vote and
ended up filibustering it
himself. In 2014, McConnell
voted to help break Ted Cruz's filibuster attempt against a debt
limit increase and then against the bill itself.
On the
weekend of January 19–21, 2013, the McConnell for Senate campaign
emailed and robo-called gun-rights supporters telling them that
"President Obama and his team are doing everything in their power to
restrict your constitutional right to keep and bear arms." McConnell
also said, "I'm doing everything in my power to protect your 2nd
amendment rights." On April
17, 2013, McConnell voted against expanding background checks for
gun purchases.
McConnell is
the only party leader in Congress to oppose the resolution that
would authorize military strikes against Syria,
citing a lack of national security risk.
In an
interview with National
Journal magazine
published October 23, 2010, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell
explained that "the single most important thing we want to achieve
is for President Obama to be a one-term president." Asked whether
this meant "endless, or at least frequent, confrontation with the
president," McConnell clarified that "if [Obama is] willing to meet
us halfway on some of the biggest issues, it's not inappropriate for
us to do business with him."
After several
intersessions to get Federal grants for Alltech,
whose president T. Pearse Lyons made several campaign contributions,
to build an algae energy production plant in Kentucky, McConnell
blasted President Obama's "all-of-the-above" energy policy that
included such technology as a "pipe dream", and that McConnell
supported an "all-of-the-above" energy policy that included such
technology .
On March 27,
2014, McConnell introduced the United
States International Programming to Ukraine and Neighboring Regions bill,
which would provide additional funding and instructions to Radio
Free Europe/Radio Liberty in
response to the 2014
Crimea crisis.
In April
2014, the United States Senate debated the Paycheck
Fairness Act (S. 2199; 113th Congress). It was a bill that
"punishes employers for retaliating against workers who share wage
information, puts the justification burden on employers as to why
someone is paid less and allows workers to sue for punitive damages
of wage discrimination." McConnell
said that he opposed the legislation because it would "line the
pockets of trial lawyers" not help women.
- Iraq War
McConnell
initially voted for the Iraq
War, has supported the "troop surge", and opposed a timetable
for withdrawal from the country. McConnell remains one of the
strongest supporters of the Iraq
War, which he considers a central part of the War
on Terrorism.
In 2004, during
the debate over the FY2005 Defense Authorization Act, McConnell
offered an alternative amendment (S.AMDT.3472) to that proposed by
Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.). McConnell's amendment required the
president to submit a public report to Congress on the strategy of
U.S. and coalition forces in Iraq regarding stabilization and
rebuilding no later than 120 days after the bill passed. Opponents
argued the measure was not strong enough, for unlike that proposed
by Kennedy, it did not require President Bush to provide an estimate
regarding future troop levels in Iraq. The amendment passed, unlike
Kennedy's, in a 71-27 vote.
In 2006,
McConnell publicly criticized Senate Democrats for urging that
troops be brought back from Iraq. According
to Bush's Decision
Points memoir,
however, McConnell was privately urging the then President to "bring
some troops home from Iraq" to lessen the political risks.
McConnell's hometown paper, the Louisville
Courier-Journal, in an editorial titled "McConnell's True
Colors", criticized McConnell for the hypocrisy of his actions and
asked him to "explain why the fortunes of the Republican Party are
of greater importance than the safety of the United States."
Regarding the
failure of the Iraqi government to make reforms, McConnell said the
following on Late
Edition with Wolf Blitzer: "The Iraqi government is a huge
disappointment. Republicans overwhelmingly feel disappointed about
the Iraqi government. I read just this week that a significant
number of the Iraqi parliament want to vote to ask us to leave. I
want to assure you, Wolf, if they vote to ask us to leave, we'll be
glad to comply with their request."
On April 21,
2009, McConnell delivered a speech to the Senate criticizing
President Obama's plans to close the Guantanamo
Bay detention camp in Cuba. During
the speech, he suggested that Obama's closure plans might result in
the release of "murderers" into the U.S. He also asserted that the
Department of Defense had identified 18 former Guantanamo
prisoners who allegedly returned to battle, whom he called "recidivists",
and he predicted that the closure of the camp would result in
additional former captives returning to the battlefield.
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Fundraising
From 2003 to
2008, among McConnell's top 20 donors have been 5
financial/investment firms: UBS, FMR
Corporation (Fidelity
Investments), Citigroup, Bank
of New York and Merrill
Lynch.
In April
2010, while Congress was considering financial reform legislation, a
reporter asked McConnell if he was "doing the bidding of the large
banks." McConnell has received more money in donations from the
"Finance, Insurance and Real Estate" sector than any other sector
according to the Center for Responsive Politics. McConnell
responded "I'd say that that's inaccurate. You could talk to the
community bankers in Kentucky."
The Democratic
Party's plan for
financial reform is actually a way to institute "endless taxpayer
funded bailouts for big Wall Street banks", said McConnell. He
expressed concern that the proposed $50 billion, bank-funded fund
that would be used to liquidate financial firms that could collapse
"would of course immediately signal to everyone that the government
is ready to bail out large banks". In
McConnell's home state of Kentucky, the Lexington
Herald-Leader ran an
editorial saying, "We have read that the Republicans have a plan for
financial reform, but McConnell isn't talking up any solutions, just
trashing the other side's ideas with no respect for the truth."
On January 2,
2013, the Public Campaign Action Fund, a nonprofit group that backs
stronger campaign finance regulation, released a report highlighting
eight instances from McConnell's political career in which a vote or
a blocked vote (filibuster),
coincided with an influx of campaign contributions to McConnell's
campaign. Progress
Kentucky, a SuperPAC focused
on defeating Mitch McConnell in 2014, hosted a press conference in
front of the senator's Louisville office to highlight the report's
findings.
Committee
assignments
Electoral history
Elections are shown with a map depicting county-by-county
information. McConnell is shown in red and Democratic opponents
shown in blue.
Personal life
McConnell is a member of the Baptist Church.
His first wife was Sherrill Redmon, from
whom he was later divorced; they have three daughters. His second
wife, whom he married in 1993, is Elaine
Chao, the former Secretary
of Labor under George
W. Bush (the firstAsian
American woman to
serve in the Cabinet).
Senator
McConnell's net worth was between $9,839,049 to $44,587,000 in 2010
and he was ranked as the 10th wealthiest member of the U.S. Senate.
McConnell is
on the Board of Selectors of Jefferson
Awards for Public Service.
Memberships
McConnell also serves as a speaker for the Leadership
Institute in
Arlington, Virginia, an
organization that teaches conservative Americans how to influence
public policy through activism and leadership. In 1997, he founded
the James
Madison Center for Free Speech, a Washington,
D.C.-based legal
defense organization. McConnell
was inducted as a member of the Sons
of the American Revolution on
March 1, 2013. His ancestor, James McConnell, served in North
Carolina during the Revolutionary War.
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United States Senate |
Preceded by
Walter Huddleston |
U.S. Senator (Class 2) from Kentucky
January 3, 1985 – present
Served alongside: Wendell
H. Ford, Jim
Bunning, Rand
Paul |
Incumbent |
Political offices |
Preceded by
Todd Hollenbach, Sr. |
Judge–Executive of Jefferson County
January 3, 1978 – December 21, 1984 |
Succeeded by
Bremer Ehrler |
Preceded by
Richard Bryan |
Chairman of the Senate
Ethics Committee
1995 – 1997 |
Succeeded by
Robert C. Smith |
Preceded by
John Warner |
Chairman of the Senate
Rules Committee
1999 – 2001 |
Succeeded by
Chris Dodd |
Preceded by
Harry Reid |
United States Senate Majority Whip
January 3, 2003 – January 3, 2007 |
Succeeded by
Dick Durbin |
Preceded by
Harry Reid |
United States Senate Minority Leader
January 4, 2007 – present |
Succeeded by
Incumbent |
Party political offices |
Preceded by
Louis Guenthner |
Republican nominee
for United
States Senator from Kentucky
(Class 2)
1984, 1990, 1996, 2002, 2008 |
Succeeded by
Current |
Preceded by
Al D'Amato |
Chairman of the National
Republican Senatorial Committee
1997 – 2001 |
Succeeded by
Bill Frist |
Preceded by
Don Nickles |
Senate Republican Whip
January 4, 2003 – January 4, 2007 |
Succeeded by
Trent Lott |
Preceded by
Bill Frist |
Senate Republican Leader
January 4, 2007 – present |
Incumbent |
United States order of precedence (ceremonial) |
Preceded by
Tom Harkin |
United States Senators by seniority
7th |
Succeeded by
Jay Rockefeller |
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Current statewide elected officials and
legislative leaders of Kentucky
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