Senator Mitch McConnell

Republican  •  Kentucky  •  5th Term  •  Sworn In 1985
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AnnaSchaefer 06/20/2010 11:27pm

You and the rest of the Republicans are so transparent! President Obama, as well as us Americans, know what you are doing. Stalling and not voting on what the people want and need in this country. Do the job you were elected to do, and start voting! Your tactics in stalling is only going to back fire on you all. Show our President some respect. How you treat him, is a reflection on how you treat us Americans. We may have been fooled in the past, but not anymore! We The People have spoken by electing President Obama into office. We need change and we need it now! And quit blaming President Obama for the disaster in the Gulf. Enough is enough!

jsosa1710 11/04/2010 6:42am

I’d like to ask Senator McConnell why he continues to say that he will make sure that Obama is only a one term President. Does that sit well with anyone else? I find it disturbing that the Senators we pick are so boldly coming out and making statements that are truly unecessary. We the voters pick the President not Senators. I find that rather disturbing. You can disagree with the President(or whomever for that matter), but what ever happened to diplomacy and a little respect? What’s next you’re going to start fist fights?

elleedr 06/18/2010 10:31am

If you are apart of the American unemployed or share the same views as the unemployed and want to have a peaceful march on Washington to show that we do need our unemployment or in support of unemployment, email me at unemploymentmarch@yahoo.com. This has to be done, a peaceful stand needs to take place soon to make a difference. Before a lot of Americans lose the little bit that they do have. We didn’t ask for the economy to be this way and it is not our fault that we can not find jobs all at the same time. We worked all of our lives and now that we need help, the people in congress is saying no! We are the ones that help pay for wars, national disasters, and the congressmen paychecks. Now they are telling us that they cannot pass a bill so we can feed and house our families. What is more important the “Oil Spill” or the unemployed and their children. I don’t think so, it’s time for a peaceful march, email me at unemploymentmarch@yahoo.com, to make a peaceful stand now.

Revolution 06/28/2010 7:05pm

You are a disgrace to your country and should be embarrassed to have the UNITED STATES in front of your title.4th of July is upon us-it reminds us of history and how the people can come together to make a difference.I hope you and your family meet the same outcome as the 15,000,000+ unemployed.You turned your back on the Citizens by playing games and stupid antics.Assistance needs to be offered to ease the minds of the families and allow continued dignity no matter the cost. You spend OUR money like water and the American people MUST and SHOULD be priority one!
“As good government is an empire of laws, how shall your laws be made? In a large society,inhabiting an extensive country,it is impossible that the whole should assemble to make laws. The first necessary step, then,is to depute power from the many to a few of the most wise and good.”
John Adams, Thoughts on Government, 1776
Obviously we dont have the few wise and good in the senate-but we have the power to change that.

cleareyes 08/06/2009 8:48am

Please speak out for courteous public discourse. Our town hall meetings are being overrun by groups that seem to think their right to voice their opinion and anger trumps everyone Else’s rights and opinions. There is no justification for this mob mentality in our free society when listening is more important than screaming to be heard. Those that disrupt by claiming to be the sole correct voice of our society wish to close the minds of a community brought together for for open discussion.

Anonymous 02/20/2009 9:04am

Mr.McConnell is a yes man for his on interst,no ones else.

Anonymous 06/15/2008 5:00pm

Middle class America wake up! A vote for a Republican is a vote for your own demise. Is war moral or do the Republicans just use religion to sell out the well meaning and good folks of America? Remember in November!!!!!! Vote all these bums out!!!!!!!!

getlambornout 03/02/2012 9:24am

You should denounce Rush Limbaugh for calling the college student names (slut) and the other vile things he said. I know all you repubs are afraid of him, but grow a set of balls.

Anonymous 02/26/2009 11:57am

Dear Senator McConnel,
Please work a bipartisan effort to help save families facing foreclosure. Support S. 61.
Sincerely,
Your Constituency in Kentucky

congressfan90 01/28/2010 9:40pm
in reply to ajwz24 Aug 10, 2009 11:13am

Although you bring up a very pleasant reason why she was chosen, it is very unfair to assume that the fact that she was Hispanic had nothing to do with that. I am not saying that is a bad thing, but it is definitely here.

Anonymous 12/11/2008 1:49pm

“We simply cannot ask the American taxpayer to subsidize failure,” McConnell said on the senate floor regarding bailing out the Big Three, yet he voted aye for the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, which kept those AIG crooks afloat without any regard to regulation or future failures on their behalf. Complete hypocrisy.

kentuckygirl 09/23/2009 11:36pm

Mr. McConnell thank you for the help with the Vets. They need all the support they can get. What’s up with not posting the health care bill on line so the voters can read it. I know there are some in Washington that think that since we went to school before the left wingers changed all of the text books we can’t read. This is beyond contempt. Also what is this STUFF video that is being shown to the children of this country in their classrooms. Just more left wing propagada to try is endoctrinate our children to their way of thinking. I watched a video the other day at Berkley and was amazed to learn that Ben Franklin was the favorite president of this country for “College Students”.

bobbief 04/21/2010 5:53pm

Sir, Please give your support to Kevin’s Law. Having Monsanto in control of our nation’s food supply is inviting a disaster of larger proportion than the bailouts for Wallstreet. No one company should have the power to sue any citizen that speaks against them. And no one company should control our government and judicial system to this magnitude. Please, for the people, represent our interests on a safer free-market food supply. We all have to eat, your family included. Please, make it your agenda. Do the right thing.

Anonymous 12/12/2008 5:22pm

America has lost too much of our industry. To loose one that we are dependent on-the auto industry- and be completely dependent on other countries for autos is foolish in the extreme. As the value of the dollar drops, those foreign cars will be even more expensive. Didn’t we learn our lesson being dependent for outside oil? Many states will lose over 50 thousand jobs related directly or indirectly to the auto industry. Up to 2 million people could find themselves unemployed or their small business failing. We don’t have the funds for extending unemployment benefits for even one year, let alone 2 or three. If you think it’s bad now, wait until those 2 million are added to the already growing number of people out of work! It will start the Great Depression of 2008- but, hey, maybe they are waiting until Bush leaves office so it will be Obama’s depression.
Hospitals are already seening the result of lost insurance and jobs in over crowded emergency rooms and barely able to cope.
We bailed out banks, with no information given on which banks were getting the money, how they were using it and told we shouldn’t ask. Now we find they are still not loaning it to businesses to keep them going. The Fed Reserve is composed of a group of private banks, that Congress gave the power to print our currency in l913- and it is unconstitutional- as the Constitution states that only the Federal Government has the right to determine currency and that states may only make gold or silver coins. Every time the Fed prints more money, it lessens the value of the dollar. But being a group of banks, they don’t care, because then they can charge the taxpayer interest on it for generations. Nixon took us off the gold standard, which means there is nothing of real value to back up those greenbacks.
McConnell is obviously not for the working man, he is in league, along with most Republicans, with big business and the banks. As long as they can make money, and keep us under their heel, they could care less about the rest of us. It’s when the lower income and middle income become educated, and begin to make money that they become a threat and need to be ‘knocked down’ a notch. The wealthy can ride out a downturn in the economy and they know the rest of us may not, and will be at their mercy again, with poor schools and less jobs and lower wages. Every gain in salary, safe working conditions and benefits has happened through the cooperation of labor unions and Democrats. Sure, Republicans want ‘smaller government’ so they can take away civil service jobs and pass them on instead to the private companies that give big bucks toward their re-election- and those companies charge a lot more to do the jobs the civil service did for us. Is small government smart when handled that way and cost us more?
Fire the CEO’s their Boards of Directors of the auto industry,put a government watchdog over it to retool the plants for energy wise cars and mass transit both. Instead of blowing money away in the wind with banks, at least you get a product that produces even more jobs that we can actually see and use and KNOW where our money went.

anna1974 06/28/2010 7:05pm

Shame on you for turning your back on us, people who are unemployed with no hope of finding a job. You’re starving our children and destroying everything that people worked their entire lives for. End this sick game now before you make America a 3rd world Country. Their will be no future generation of children if you keep denying food and shelter for the children of this generation and their families. We suffer because of you and your selfish party members. Remember, you turn back on us now, America will remember in November. Party of “NO” has no place in Washington. American People deserve better than that. We want an American Dream back and we will get it!
By the way, why don’t any of your staff members pick up the phone when people are calling your office. Not even an option to leave the message? Who are you’re working for??? Aliens from a distant planet?

anna1974 06/28/2010 7:16pm
in reply to Revolution Jun 28, 2010 7:05pm

You absolutely nailed it. Thank you for support.

pelmof 06/29/2010 4:49am

Dear Senator McConnell,
S.3520 needs to be passed immediately. There are 15 million Americans who are “unemployed through no fault of their own,” and who are also frantically attempting to find new jobs that do not exist. The majority of these 15 million have a family dependent upon their income, so that increases the number to possibly 30 or even 45 million Americans who are in imminent danger of losing everything. When this happens, the financial and moral ramifications for this country will be dire indeed. I’ll say it again— S.3520 needs to be passed immediately! Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter.

purplelilac3084 06/29/2010 5:26am

S.3520 needs to be passed immediately. There are 15 million Americans who are “unemployed through no fault of their own,” and who are also frantically attempting to find new jobs that do not exist. The majority of these 15 million have a family dependent upon their income, so that increases the number to possibly 30 or even 45 million Americans who are in imminent danger of losing everything. When this happens, the financial and moral ramifications for this country will be dire indeed. I’ll say it again— S.3520 needs to be passed immediately! Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter.

DOUGLASFIELD 04/26/2010 11:27am

DEAR SENATOR,

~ SHOULD POORER AMERICANS HAVE FAITH THAT OUR U.S. SUPREME COURT IS WELL AWARE THAT AMERICAN PESTIGE INTERNATIONALLY IS VERY MUCH BASED ON HOW WELL WE TREAT OUR OWN CITIZENS~

  • U.S. SUPREME COURT TO THE RESCUE OF MIDDLE~CLASS AND WORKING POOR AMERICANS OR IS THIS JUST ANOTHER BAD DREAM THAT REAL JUSTICE WILL ONLY CONTINUE TO NOT BE AFFORDED US LITTLE PEOPLE HERE IN THE WEALTHIEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD ??
  • MIDDLE~CLASS AND WORKING POOR RELIGIOUS AMERICANS REST OUR CASE AGAINST GOVERNOR RICK PERRY OF TEXAS & SATAN ~ YOUR U.S. SUPREME COURT HONOR’S !!!
  • CAN ANYONE EXPLAIN OTHER THEN SATAN HOW TEXAS GOVERNOR RICK PERRY ON ONE HAND PARDONS FORMER TEXAS INMATE TIMOTHY COLE WHO WAS WRONGFULLY EXECUTED WITHOUT BEING ALLOWED TO EXONERATE HIMSELF USING DNA TESTING IN TEXAS , AND WITHIN THE SAME MONTH THIS SAME GOVERNOR RICK PERRY OF TEXAS DENIES YET ANOTHER DNA TEST PRIOR ANOTHER POSSIBLE WRONGFUL EXECUTION OF HANK SKINNER ???
cosmos 08/28/2009 9:15am
in reply to ajwz24 Aug 10, 2009 11:13am

Well played.

Anonymous 06/14/2008 6:38pm

Vote for and pass HR5749 extending unemployment benefits. Kentucky is hurting. Don’t play politics and power games with this bill. The House members who voted against this have heard loud and clear about their mistake. The people are watching because it is important for people’s very survival. Vote yes this bill has been needed for many since Christmas and they can’t wait anymore!

Anonymous 09/30/2008 11:46am

What a bunch of sad angry people.

PierceQ 01/12/2009 8:58pm

Economic crisis brings lots of troubled to us. Everybody is carrying huge of burdens on shoulder and each day passes by, we find it more and more difficult to lift up. States like Michigan and California are in need of a payday loan since it plays an important part in the economy. President-elect Barack Obama made an economic address to the public in Fairfax, Virginia regarding the stimulus package he has put together in hopes of rebuilding “lost trust and confidence” in the nation and its people. Everyone agrees that we need a stimulus package, and fast because too many people are needing a payday loan these days. Reacting to the Obama speech, however, a few Republicans had something to say regarding the new stimulus plan. House Minority Leader John Boehner and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell agreed that the plan, as proposed, was too expensive. Boehner called for balance, and McConnell suggested that the only way these states will use this money responsibly is to make it not a grant, but a loan. Click here to find out more about what was discussed by visiting your payday loan source.

joshuaamosley 07/10/2009 10:22pm

I am a fellow republican and would like to suggest and request that you as well as all other republicans vote to pass s.1230 and I urge congress to get this done soon as intrest rates are rising which will cause a slow down in the rebound of the realestate industry.

ttag8011 03/07/2013 1:13pm

Thank you for standing with Rand Paul in demanding answers. This is a shining moment.

OneAngryAmerican 10/29/2009 5:39pm

McConnell..quit playing games with the unemployment extension. People are hurting and jobs are not to be found. Amazing how we can bail out the banking industry and the crooks on Wall St., but the real victims in this country are just left hanging. We didn’t choose to have our jobs outsourced, closed or moved. That was all done thanks to some of the “great” legislation that our government has allowed over the years to be passed. Keep taking care of the wealthy and keep screwing the middle class and poor. You should be ashamed of yourself.

Superpower 07/19/2011 9:19am

Senator McConnell, if you turn over control of spending to the president you will ensure the economic collapse of this country. This means that you are no better for the country than the opposition you"ve been elected to challenge. The Republicans I know would stand firm and force the opposition to give in, but with you unfortunately we don’t have that. You and Sen. Judas McCain have all but admitted that “the fix is in” as it pertains to country club establishment Republicans, of which it appears now that you surely are. Mr. McCain seems to be more concerned about his own personal financial investment portfolio than the financial security of his country, that’s why he likes your capitulation legislation you’re creating. What a huge disappointment for America you’ve turned out to be. What will you do as a career when you get voted out of office?

Anonymous 03/03/2009 4:30pm

MITCH THE BITCH MC CONNELL…. GET YOUR HEAD OUT OF THE BUSH ASS….. YOU DUMB BASTARD… YOU CAN NOT TALK WHEN YOU HAVE SO MUCH PORK FOR MY OWN STATE…. WHAT AN ASS HOLE….
STOP THE CRAP…. FOR THE WEALTHY AND START SPENDING AND STIMULATE THE ECONOMY ….. BASIC KEYNESIAN ECONOMICS… IF COPRS CAN NOT INCREAD DEMAD, THEN GOVERNMENT MUST SPEND TO CREATE DEMAN…. SIMPLE… TIME FOR UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE TO GET HEALTHCARE OFF THE BACKS OF THE COPRS… TIME TO BRING THE JOBS BACK TO THE USA FROM THIS ASSHOLE COUNTIES AND STOP THE MULTINATIONAL CORPS FROM EATING UP THE JOBS…. TIME TO RENOGCIATE ALL THE EON TREATIES FOR QUID PRO QUO…… YOU NEED TO STOP BEING THE HOOVER CREATING HOOVER-VILLES…. OR RETIRE… YOU INSULT THE MIDDLE CLASS WITH YOUR DUMB ASS ECON THEORIES…. TAX BREAKS FOR THE WEALTHY… SO LAME…

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DOUGLASFIELD 10/16/2009 10:58pm
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