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Senate Democrats Afraid to Challenge Obama Administration’s New Job-Killing Coal Regulations

June 19, 2014

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell made the following remarks on the Senate Floor regarding Senate Democrat leadership cancelling an appropriations markup, with the support of Democrat members of the committee, to protect the President’s job-killing EPA regulations:

“Last night, the Senate Democrat leadership pulled the energy and water bill from consideration – for one reason: to protect the Administration’s new job-killing coal regulations.

“So once again, Senate Democrats are preventing my commonsense, pro-coal measure from moving forward. They’re doing the bidding of the Administration, instead of listening to constituents back home.

“Kentucky families, especially our coal families, continue to struggle under the Obama Economy. And the Senate Democrat leadership’s latest action is yet another example of the lengths they’ll go to defend Obama Administration’s regulatory agenda – an agenda Washington Democrats seem willing to protect at all costs, even when supposedly pro-energy Senate Democrats try to make us think otherwise.”

McConnell Comments on Senate Democrat Vote to Weaken First Amendment Free Speech Protections

‘Washington Democrats have shown time and again how determined they are to shut down the voices of anyone who has a different point of view.’

June 18, 2014

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell issued the following statement today after the Senate Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights Subcommittee, in a party-line vote, voted against the text of the First Amendment and instead approved a Senate Democrat proposal that would weaken the free speech protections contained in the First Amendment to the Constitution:

“Washington Democrats have shown time and again how determined they are to shut down the voices of anyone who has a different point of view. Today -- and quite remarkably -- this determination extended to voting against the text of the First Amendment itself.  Washington Democrats seem to forget that the First Amendment is about empowering the people, not the government, but the proposed Democrat amendment has it backwards. It says that Congress and the states can abridge political speech—the speech that is at the very core of the First Amendment. But when it comes to free speech, we shouldn’t substitute the incumbent-protection desires of politicians for the protection the Constitution guarantees to all Americans.”
 

McConnell Comments on Keystone Political Show Vote

June 18, 2014

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell issued the following statement on the political show vote in the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee regarding the  Keystone XL Pipeline:

“The Keystone XL Pipeline is the single largest shovel-ready project in America, ready to go, but for years President Obama and his hard-left allies have stalled these jobs in a maze of red tape. Today’s vote in the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on building Keystone is all well and good, but there’s already a Keystone bill on the calendar that the Majority Leader could turn to at any time. The question isn’t whether energy-state Democrats can support a Keystone bill in committee—it’s whether or not they’ll continue to stand with their party and their leader in blocking the full Senate from voting on it, or whether they’ll stand up for jobs and demand a vote.  I would encourage the chairman of the Committee to go to the floor and offer a request that the Senate take up and pass the bill.  She would certainly have my support.”

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