Analysis
Our unique analysis of the bills McConnell has sponsored and cosponsored provides insight into his position in the Senate.
Each dot in the chart below is a member of the Senate. The dots are positioned horizontally according to our progressive—conservative ideology score and vertically according to our leadership score (leaders toward the top). McConnell is shown as a purple triangle. (analysis methodology)
2015 Statistics
Read our 2015 Report Card for McConnell for more statistics.
Committee Membership
Mitch McConnell sits on the following committees:
- Ex Officio, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
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Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
- Member, Subcommittee on Conservation, Forestry and Natural Resources
- Member, Subcommittee on Livestock, Marketing and Agriculture Security
- Member, Subcommittee on Nutrition, Specialty Crops, and Agricultural Research
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Senate Committee on Appropriations
- Member, Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies
- Member, Subcommittee on Department of Defense
- Member, Subcommittee on Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies
- 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
- Senate Committee on Rules and Administration
Bills Sponsored
Issue Areas
McConnell sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:
Taxation (23%) International Affairs (19%) Environmental Protection (16%) Economics and Public Finance (10%) Crime and Law Enforcement (10%) Armed Forces and National Security (10%) Finance and Financial Sector (6%) Public Lands and Natural Resources (6%)
Recent Bills
Some of McConnell’s most recently sponsored bills include...
- S.Con.Res. 50: A concurrent resolution providing for an adjournment of the House of Representatives.
- S.Res. 523: A resolution relating to the death of Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor, powerful advocate ...
- S.Res. 484: A resolution authorizing the taking of a photograph in the Senate Chamber.
- S.Res. 457: A resolution relative to the death of Conrad Ray Burns, former United States ...
- S.Con.Res. 34: A concurrent resolution providing for an adjournment of the House of Representatives.
- S.Res. 402: A resolution to authorize testimony, documentary production, and representation in United States of ...
- S.Res. 374: A resolution relating to the death of Antonin Scalia, Associate Justice of the ...
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Voting Record
From Jan 1985 to Sep 2016, McConnell missed 84 of 10,593 roll call votes, which is 0.8%. This is better than the median of 1.7% among the lifetime records of senators currently serving. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
Primary Sources
The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:
- The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
- Congressional Biographical Directory for elected positions
- United States Congressional Roll Call Voting Records, 1789-1990 by Howard L. Rosenthal and Keith T. Poole.
- Martis’s “The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress”, via Keith Poole’s roll call votes data set, for political party affiliation for Members of Congress from 1789 through about year 2000
- GPO Member Guide for the photo
- GPO.gov/FDSys, for sponsored bills