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Kentucky Republican Addison Mitchell "Mitch" McConnell
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Congress.gov biography:
"McConnell, Addison Mitchell (Mitch), a Senator
from Kentucky; born in Tuscumbia, Colbert County, Ala., February 20, 1942;
attended Louisville, Ky. public schools; graduated, University of Louisville
1964; graduated, University of Kentucky Law School, Lexington 1967; admitted
to the Kentucky bar in 1967; legislative assistant to Senator Marlow Cook
1968-1970; deputy assistant United States Attorney 1974-1975; elected judge-executive
of Jefferson County, Ky., 1978-1985; elected as a Republican to the United
States Senate in 1984; reelected in 1990, 1996 and 2002 for the term ending
January 3, 2009; Republican party whip (2003-2007); minority leader (2007-);
chair, Select Committee on Ethics (One Hundred Fourth Congress), National
Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee (One Hundred Fifth through One
Hundred Sixth Congresses), Rules and Administration (One Hundred Sixth
Congress, One Hundred Seventh Congress [January 20, 2001-June 6, 2001])."
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Addison
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MITCH McCONNELL News:
20080605
Mitch
McConnell -  James
Inhofe -  Gas
-  Emissions
-  Global
- Climate
-  Environment
-  Nevada
-  Kentucky
-  Oklahoma
-  US
-  Law
"Republicans
stall climate change bill to punish Reid." ... "When
[Nevada Democratic Senator] Sen. Harry Reid rose to become the majority
leader in 2007, many believed he had met his match in the Republicans’
new Senate leader, [Kentucky Republican Senator] Mitch McConnell of Kentucky."
... "Shrewd parliamentarians both, they brought the prospect of each trying
to outsmart the other on the Senate floor, promising good viewing." ...
"Those skills were on display Wednesday when McConnell brought the Senate
to a standstill." ... "Just as the chamber was about to begin a feisty
debate on the most sweeping effort yet to address climate change, McConnell
shut down the Senate by forcing full reading of the 491-page bill." ...
"Rather than hearing a spirited battle over carbon emissions, gas prices
and new fees for polluters, one lonely clerk after another read page after
page of minutia to a nearly empty chamber." ... "In his own statement,
Reid said: “Republicans are yet again doing everything in their power to
slow, stop and stall. These petty, partisan tactics waste the American
people’s time, and ignoring the crisis of global warming endangers all
of us.”" ... "By early evening, with a few remaining tourists in the gallery
watching the nearly empty floor, Republican [Oklahoma Senator] Sen. James
Inhofe of Oklahoma, the chamber’s leading global warming skeptic, sat in
waiting, prepared to object should Democrats ask for the hours-long reading
to end." -LasVegasSun.com
20080423
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Mitch
McConnell -
 Corporate
-  Politicians
-  Woman
-  Workers
- Law
- Kentucky
- "Republicans
Kill Fair Pay Bill." ... "[Kentucky Republican Senator]
Mitch McConnell and company managed to torpedo
a bill that would have undone the Supreme Court's 5-4 decision
last year in Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, which
held that workers can't sue for ongoing pay discrimination if the statute
of limitations has passed since their first discriminatory paycheck (even
if, as in most cases, workers don't know at the time that they're being
discriminated against). This demonstrates a rather breathtaking lack of
empathy on the part of Senate Republicans, even by their usual standards:
They're defending on the merits a situation in which if your company continually
docks your pay because you're a woman, and you don't find out about it
for several years, you can't sue to get your lost wages back." ... "Finally,
this seems to me like a pretty clear abuse of the filibuster." -By
Josh Patashnik -TNR.com
20080123
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Mitch
McConnell - Noteworthy
-
 Government
-  Intelligence
-  Surveillance
- Corporate
-  Telecom
- Amnesty
- Politics
- Nevada
- Kentucky
-  Vermont
-  Connecticut
-  Wisconsin
- "Your
Harry Reid-led Senate in action." ... "[Nevada Democratic
Senator] Harry Reid -- who has (a) done more than any other individual
to ensure that Bush's demands for telecom immunity and warrantless eavesdropping
powers will be met in full and (b) allowed the Republicans all year to
block virtually every bill without having to bother to actually filibuster
-- went to the Senate floor yesterday and, with the scripted assistance
of [Kentucky Republican Senator] Mitch McConnell and [Vermont Democratic
Senator] Pat Leahy, warned [Connecticut Democratic Senator] Chris Dodd,
[Wisconsin Democratic Senator] Russ Feingold and others that they would
be selfishly wreaking havoc on the schedules of their fellow Senators (making
them work over the weekend, ruining their planned "retreat," and even preventing
them from going to Davos!) if they bothered everyone with their annoying,
pointless little filibuster." ... "To do so, Reid announced that, unlike
for the multiple filibusters from Republican colleagues, he would actually
force Dodd and company to engage in a real filibuster. This is what Reid
said:"
"[I]f
people think they are going to talk this to death, we are going to be in
here all night. This is not something we are going to have a silent filibuster
on. If someone wants to filibuster this bill, they are going to do it in
the openness of the Senate."
"That
is what Democrats have been urging Reid to do to the filibustering Republicans
all year -- in order to dramatize their obstructionism -- but he has refused
to make them actually filibuster anything, generously agreeing instead
that every bill requires 60 votes. Instead, he reserves such punishment
only for the members of his own caucus trying to take a stand for the rule
of law and the Constitution, those who are trying finally to bring some
accountability to this administration." -By Glenn
Greenwald -Salon
20071027
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Mitch
McConnell -
 Criminal
- Money
- Politics
-  Military
- KY
- US
-  Britain
-  Saudi
Arabia - "McConnell
marks funds for contractor: Firm Under Investigation
for Bribery." ... "[Kentucky Reputlican Senator] Sen. Mitch McConnell,
R-Ky., is pushing $25 million in earmarked federal funds for a British
defense contractor that is under criminal investigation by the U.S. Justice
Department and suspected by American diplomats of a "longstanding, widespread
pattern of bribery allegations."" ... "McConnell tucked money for three
weapons projects for BAE Systems into the defense appropriations bill,
which the Senate approved Oct. 3. The Defense Department failed to include
the money in its own budget request, which required McConnell to intercede,
said BAE spokeswoman Susan Lenover." ... "BAE is based in Great Britain
but has worldwide operations, including a Louisville [Kentucky] facility
that makes naval guns and employs 322. McConnell has taken at least $53,000
in campaign donations from BAE's political action committees and employees
since his 2002 re-election. United Defense Industries, which BAE purchased
two years ago, pledged $500,000 to a political-science foundation the senator
created, the McConnell Center at the University of Louisville." ... "In
June, BAE confirmed that the Justice Department is investigating possible
corruption in its Saudi Arabian deals. According to British media reports,
BAE set up a slush fund with hundreds of millions of dollars in a Washington,
D.C., bank to bribe Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan in order to win weapons
contracts. Bandar, who heads the Saudi National Security Council, has denied
the allegation." -By John Cheves
-Kentucky.com
20071017
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Mitch
McConnell -
 Media
- Surveillance
- Intelligence
- Politics
-  Children
-  Health
-  E-Mails
- Kentucky
- "McConnell
knew staff encouraged media to look at boy's background."
... "Senate Minority Leader [Kentucky Republican Senator] Mitch McConnell
knew his staff had sent e-mails encouraging reporters to look into the
background of a boy recruited by Democrats to support expansion of a children's
health-care program - even as he denied involvement by his aides, a newspaper
reported Wednesday." ... "The Kentucky Republican told a WHAS-TV reporter
last Friday that his staff had not been involved in trying to push reporters
to look into the financial situation of the 12-year-old boy's family."
... "But McConnell spokesman Don Stewart told The Courier-Journal of Louisville
[Kentucky] that he informed McConnell about the Oct. 8 e-mails sometime
around Thursday, the day before the interview with the television reporter."
-AP via -Kentucky.com
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Mitch
McConnell - Children
- Health
- Politics
- E-Mails
- Media
-
 Radio
- Ad
- Money- Kentucky
-  Maryland
- "McConnell
knew of e-mails about boy: TV interview included denial."
... "Senate Minority Leader [Kentucky Republican Senator] Mitch McConnell
knew last week --at a time when he was denying it -- that his staff had
sent e-mails encouraging reporters to look into the background of a 12-year-old
boy used by Democrats to support expansion of a health-care program." ...
"In an interview Friday with WHAS-TV reporter Mark Hebert, the Kentucky
Republican said his staff had not been involved in trying to push reporters
to look into the financial situation of the boy's family." ... "But McConnell's
communications director, Don Stewart, said in an interview Monday with
The Courier-Journal that he had told McConnell about the Oct. 8 e-mails
sometime around Thursday, the day before the interview with Hebert." ...
""The initial e-mails sent by Stewart were aimed at alerting reporters
that bloggers were raising questions about the boy, Graeme Frost of Baltimore
[Maryland], and his family's financial circumstances. He backed off that
claim in his subsequent e-mails, he said, based on a report from a blogger
whom he respected." ... "Stewart said he informed McConnell of his personal
role in the matter around Thursday." ... "The next day, Friday, Hebert
asked McConnell about the e-mails. The exchange was broadcast Sunday night
and again last evening." ... "Hebert asked the senator whether his office
was attempting to get reporters to look into Frost's background." ... ""No,"
McConnell answered." ... "The senator was then asked, "What was the deal
with the e-mail from your staffer?"" ... "McConnell replied: "There was
no involvement whatsoever."" ... "The boy and his family's circumstances
became an issue after he was recruited by the Democrats to respond to [Republican]
President Bush's Sept. 29 radio address regarding the expanded health program,
which Bush vetoed Oct. 3." ... "Graeme and his sister, Gemma, suffered
severe injuries in a 2004 car crash and were beneficiaries of the insurance
program." -By James R. Carroll
-Courier-Journal.com
20070629
-
 David
Vitter - Trent
Lott
-  Racism
- Politics
- Immigration
- Legislation
- Civil
Rights -  History
-  Mass
-  La
- Ky
-  Miss
-  SC
-  Ala
- 2008
Election - "Senate
immigration bill fails; issue "is going to have to wait."
... "The political battles that helped bring down sweeping immigration
legislation in the Senate are sure to rage on, although the bill is all
but dead until after the 2008 elections." ... "[Massachusetts Democratic
Senator] Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., one of the bill's architects, compared
the fight with the Senate's long struggle for civil-rights legislation
against segregationist opponents." ... ""You cannot stop the march for
progress in the United States," he declared." ... "To that, [Louisiana
Republican Senator] Sen. David Vitter, R-La., among the bill's most aggressive
foes, snapped: "To suggest this was about racism is the height of ugliness
and arrogance."" ... "Republicans on both sides acknowledged the immigration
fight had riven the GOP. Republican Senate aides, speaking on condition
of anonymity, said Senate Minority Whip [Mississippi Republican Senator]
Trent Lott, R-Miss., was furious with Minority Leader [Kentucky Republican
Senator] Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., over the leader's refusal to confront
the bill's most implacable opponents, who had virtually commandeered the
Senate floor, blocking introduction of amendments, refusing to offer amendments
of their own, then complaining that an unfair process was preventing them
from improving the bill." ... "Lott told McConnell that Sens. Vitter, [South
Carolina Republican Senator] Jim DeMint, R-S.C., and [Alabama Republican
Senator] Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., were becoming the uncompromising faces
of the Republican Party, a prospect that could set them back for years
as the Latino vote grows in power." -SeattleTimes.NWsource
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