McConnell: Senate Must Act Swiftly on Sweden, Finland NATO Accession
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) delivered the following remarks today on the Senate floor regarding foreign policy: “Yesterday, a day after the House overwhelmingly passed a resolution welcoming Finland and Sweden’s application to join NATO, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee discharged the treaty protocols required to ratify their accession, without […]
Democrats Threaten Americans’ Privacy and Political Speech
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) delivered the following remarks today on the Senate floor regarding the DISCLOSE Act: “Unfortunately, inflation and tax hikes don’t exhaust Washington Democrats’ capacity to make trouble for the American people. “Today, the Rules Committee will be reviewing the DISCLOSE Act, a seemingly annual liberal attempt […]
Kentuckians Cannot Afford Another Year of Biden’s “Temporary” Inflation
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) delivered the following remarks today on the Senate floor regarding the economy: “A year ago today, with prices already rising, President Biden said high inflation was, ‘expected to be temporary.’ “One year later, after nine straight months of inflation over six percent, prices are now […]
Democrats Attack American Medical Research
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) delivered the following remarks today on the Senate floor regarding drug pricing: “One of the things Washington Democrats appear most eager to do with their one-party control of government is resurrect their war on America’s world-leading medical innovation sector. “In a statement just last week, […]
Democrats’ Reckless Plan To Rob Americans A Second Time
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) delivered the following remarks today on the Senate floor regarding the economy: “Last week, Americans families’ pain was confirmed by yet another round of awful statistics. “Year-on-year inflation set a new, 40-year high in June. The painful fallout of Washington Democrats’ 2021 spending binge continues […]
Democrats’ Attacks on the Supreme Court Are Reckless and Dangerous
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) delivered the following remarks today on the Senate floor regarding the Supreme Court: “All week long, I’ve been discussing the historic Supreme Court term that wrapped up late last month. “Over the course of several months, a textualist and originalist majority issued the most consequential […]
Democrats’ Failed Energy Policies are Hurting Americans and Helping China
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) delivered the following remarks today on the Senate floor regarding the economy: “Yesterday’s CPI report told Americans what they already knew all too well: the disastrous effects of Washington Democrats’ spending binge last year still have our economy in a vice grip. “Year-on-year, inflation has […]
Courts Slap Down Democrats’ Lawless Power Grabs
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) delivered the following remarks today on the Senate floor regarding the Supreme Court: “This week, I’ve been discussing the historic term the Supreme Court just concluded — the most consequential and pro-Constitution term since Brown overturned Plessy almost 70 years ago. “Back in 2015, in […]
Democrats’ Runaway Inflation Hits Another 40-Year High
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) delivered the following remarks today on the Senate floor regarding the economy: “This morning, this all-Democrat government produced yet another absolutely terrible inflation report. “Inflation during the month of June shattered the experts’ predictions. We are at 9.1% annual inflation. “Yet another fresh 40-year high. […]
Landmark Wins for Religious Freedom at the Supreme Court
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) delivered the following remarks today on the Senate floor regarding the Supreme Court: “Yesterday, I discussed the Supreme Court’s historic, courageous, and correct decision in Dobbs. But that landmark case was only part of the most consequential Supreme Court term in almost 70 years, since […]