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McConnell Statement on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

January 15, 2016

LOUISVILLE, KY – U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell issued the following statement honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Senator McConnell, while serving as a Congressional intern, witnessed Dr. King’s “I Have a Dream” speech in Washington, D.C., in 1963.

“Today we honor one of our nation’s heroes, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who dreamt of an America that fulfills the principles of her founding with opportunity for all regardless of race. More than 50 years after his most famous speech, we know many challenges remain. But we also know that Dr. King’s dream is alive and as powerful as ever. It still inspires Americans to work towards freedom for all.”

McConnell Statement on President Obama's Latest Attack on Coal

January 15, 2016

LOUISVILLE, KY – U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell issued the following statement today regarding the Department of the Interior’s (DOI) announcement on federal coal leasing:

“At a time when Americans are calling on the Obama Administration to protect our nation and strengthen the Middle Class, the Administration is again making clear that its priorities are elsewhere. Today’s announcement to halt federal coal leasing represents just the latest front in an ideological War on Coal that has contributed to devastation in communities in Eastern Kentucky and to the loss of thousands of jobs across the commonwealth. No wonder more than 70% of Americans want to see the next President take a different approach from the current one. Americans want this Administration to focus on building opportunity for them, not advancing some regressive war that attacks Middle Class jobs and punishes the poor.”

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McConnell Comments on President’s Final State of The Union Address

Talks importance of hosting his guest, a KY coal miner

January 12, 2016

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell commented following President Obama’s State of the Union Address and spoke to the importance of hosting a Kentucky coal miner as his guest tonight:

SOTU RESPONSE: “Well he did the best job he could to try to convince Americans that somehow things are getting better in the United States and around the world. With regard to his foreign policy, Jimmy Carter summed it up pretty well earlier this summer when he said that he couldn’t think of a single place in the world where we were better off now than we were when the president came to office. And here at home, we know Obamacare, we know slow growth, we know lack of optimism. The president is a good salesman, but I don’t think he could sell to the American people that things are getting better. And so we’re all looking forward to having a new president and a new State of the Union a year from now.”

HOSTING KY COAL MINER HOWARD ABSHIRE: “Well even though the President probably won’t know this unemployed coal miner was in the audience tonight, I wanted him to have to face the results of his policies. We have a depression in central Appalachia, eastern Kentucky, and West Virginia as a result of the President’s policies, not as a result of any legislation that Congress passed. And so I brought this unemployed coal miner here to see the person who put him out of work.” Click HERE to read more.

Senator McConnell welcomed Howard and Wray Lynn Abshire of Pike County to his office in the U.S. Capitol. The Abshires were the Senator’s guests for tonight’s State of the Union Address.


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