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Sen. Mitch McConnell [R-KY]
U.S. Senator, Kentucky

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Mitch McConnell’s Official Website

Biography from the official Congressional Biographical Directory

Campaign Contributions tracked by the Center for Responsive Politics

State:	Kentucky [map]
Party:	Republican
Birthday:	Feb 20, 1942 / 67 years old

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Official YouTube Feed

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On the Floor

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Congressional Service

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Mitch McConnell:

When	Role	Representing
1985-2014	U.S. Senator	Kentucky	(Most Recent Term Began in 2009) (was preceeded by Walter Huddleston)

Sponsorship Analysis

McConnell is a moderate Republican according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship.

These labels come from the Political Spectrum statistical analysis that we have carried out. The statistical analysis puts members of Congress on a scale based on patterns of bill sponsorship, and is blind to party affiliation and the content of bills. From there, we have somewhat arbitrarily divided the Members of Congress into far-left/right, rank-and-file, and moderate (i.e. centrist). For each party, the most extreme 23% of Members of Congress are labeled far-left or -right. The most centrist 30% (i.e. those closest to the other party) are labeled moderate. The remaining 47% are labeled as rank-and-file.

McConnell is somewhere between a leader and a follower. McConnell sponsors others’ bills and other Members of Congress cosponsor McConnell’s bills. For more, see congressional statistics.

To compute the leader-follower score for McConnell, we make a table that lists all other Members of Congress. Each row has the number bills sponsored by McConnell and cosponsored by the other Member of Congress divided by the number of bills sponsored by the other Member of Congress and cosponsored by McConnell.

This is a measure of who is following who. The higher the number, the more times others are cosponsoring McConnell's bills without McConnell returning the favor. We then take the mean of (the logorithms of) these ratios. Thanks to Joe Barillari for the idea.

Approval Rating

SurveyUSA reports McConnell’s job approval rating at 44% as of 2007-11-20. The average approval rating among senators in states surveyed is 53%. See their survey details for more information.

Voting Record

Mitch McConnell missed 63 (1%) of 7073 votes since Jan 25, 1989. The graph to the left shows the number of missed votes over time. Click for a larger chart and a list of recent votes.

Money & Influence

The top campaign contribution to McConnell in 2007-2008 was $107,200 from employees of Kindred Healthcare. Mitch McConnell’s net worth was between $2,858,033 and $12,720,999 in 2007, according to McConnell’s mandated financial disclosure statements. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for McConnell.

Committee Membership

Mitch McConnell sits on the following committees:

Member, Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry

Member, Subcommittee on Domestic and Foreign Marketing, Inspection, and Plant and Animal Health

Member, Subcommittee on Hunger, Nutrition, and Family Farms

Member, Subcommittee on Rural Revitalization, Conservation, Forestry, and Credit

Member, Senate Committee on Appropriations

Member, Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies

Member, Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies

Member, Subcommittee on Defense

Member, Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development

Member, Subcommittee on Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies

Member, Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs

Member, Senate Committee on Rules and Administration

Ex Officio, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Mitch McConnell has sponsored 131 bills since Mar 13, 1991 of which 97 haven't made it out of committee and 9 were successfully enacted. McConnell has co-sponsored 547 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by McConnell and companion bills identified by CRS that were themselves enacted, but not if they were incorporated into other bills, as that information is not readily available.)

Some of McConnell’s most recently sponsored bills include...

	S.Res. 279: A resolution making minority party appointments for certain committees for the 111th Congress.
	S.Con.Res. 43: A concurrent resolution authorizing the use of the rotunda of the Capitol for the presentation of the Congressional Gold Medal to former Senator Edward Brooke.
	S.Res. 131: A resolution making minority party appointments for certain committees for the 111th Congress.
	S. 1302: Veterans Health Care Improvement Act of 2009
	S.J.Res. 17: A joint resolution approving the renewal of import restrictions contained in the Burmese Freedom and Democracy Act of 2003, and for other purposes.

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