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Senate to Pass Clay Hunt Suicide Prevention for American Veterans Act

February 2, 2015

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell made the following remarks on the Senate floor regarding the Clay Hunt Suicide Prevention for American Veterans Act:

“Members in both parties agree it’s time to pursue positive reform for veterans who are hurting. 

“The Clay Hunt Suicide Prevention for American Veterans Act aims to reduce the tragedy that befalls too many of our heroes — and the heartbreak that befalls too many of their families.

“We lose thousands of veterans every year to suicide. Now is the time for practical, bipartisan action to do something about it.

“The legislation we’ll vote on tomorrow would provide more of the suicide-prevention and mental-health support our veterans deserve. It would help veterans transition from active duty service. And it would take steps to improve the effectiveness of programs to help heroes in need.

“This bill has already passed the House of Representatives unanimously. I hope we can achieve a similar result in the Senate and send this bipartisan legislation to the White House for a signature.

“And before I finish, I really want to thank both the Senior Senator from Georgia and the Senior Senator from Arizona for their tireless work on this bill. These Senators care deeply about the men and women who give everything to protect us. Veterans are lucky to have such strong champions on their side.”

Republican Budget Will Continue Focus on the Middle Class

February 2, 2015

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell made the following remarks on the Senate floor regarding the President’s budget:

“In his State of the Union address, President Obama promised to deliver a budget filled with, quote, ‘ideas that are practical, not partisan.’

“I know many Americans were glad to hear him say that. The American people elected a right-of-center Congress focused on jobs and reform. So it makes sense that a President would want to send common-sense ideas that could pass the Congress the people elected.

“He could have proposed a budget that balanced.

“He could have challenged us with serious, innovative reforms aimed at getting spending under control. Or effective ideas to increase jobs and opportunity.

“There are so many positive things he could’ve done instead of phoning in another tired, tax-and-spend manifesto. We basically see the same thing every year. It focuses on growing the bureaucracy instead of opportunity. It doesn’t balance — ever. And because it isn’t designed to pass Congress, it doesn’t.

“But the budget is just one symptom of a wider disconnect.

“Rhetorically at least, we hear the White House echo Republicans’ calls for policies aimed at helping the Middle Class. But then we see the White House push more of the stale, top-down policies favored by political bosses on the Left.

“As Americans who’ve lost health plans or seen health costs skyrocket could tell you, the Left’s priorities often hurt the very people they purport to help. So this is the wrong approach. We need fresh ideas.

“Republicans want the President to join us in fighting for the Middle Class, so we think he should take opportunities like the budget to rally members of both parties behind serious ideas that can pass. We think the country could really benefit from his positive leadership

“His next test will come soon, as the new Congress works to develop the kind of budget the American people deserve.

“We’re going to focus on growing the economy from the ground up with more future-oriented reform, more jobs, and more opportunity. We’re going to pursue ideas that make government leaner, more efficient, and more effective. And we’re going to honor the hardworking men and women who count on us to spend their dollars wisely — not offload Washington’s problems onto them with higher taxes. 

“That’s what the American people expect. It’s the kind of practical agenda you pursue if you’re serious about helping the Middle Class. And it’s what I hope the President will now encourage members of both parties to work toward.

“The truth is, there’s a lot we can achieve with constructive, bipartisan cooperation.”

McConnell Statement on the President’s Budget and Coal

February 2, 2015

McConnell Statement on the President’s Budget and Coal

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell released the following statement regarding the President’s plan for those struggling under his anti-coal Administration:

“It is cold comfort for the Obama Administration to suddenly propose easing the pain they’ve helped inflict on so many Kentucky coal families, but anything aimed at aiding these communities should be seriously considered. Meanwhile, I will continue to offer ways to help Kentucky’s struggling communities under the Obama economy, particularly those in coal country. The best way to help these Kentuckians is to prevent anti-coal efforts in the first place, which is one reason I’ve joined the Senate subcommittee charged with overseeing spending at the anti-coal EPA.”

NOTE:  Senator McConnell made the following comments earlier today regarding his decision to join the Senate Interior Appropriations Subcommittee: “This Administration continues its war against Kentucky coal jobs, our miners and their families and I have vowed to do all I can do stop them. By joining the Interior Appropriations Subcommittee, I will help oversee the budget for the EPA. You can guarantee that I will continue to fight back against this Administration’s anti-coal jobs regulations on behalf of the Kentuckians I represent in the U.S. Senate.”

McConnell Statement on the President’s Budget

‘The new Congress will focus on ways to help the Middle Class instead as we work to pass the serious kind of budget all Americans deserve: one that roots out and reforms wasteful spending, and that aims to grow Middle-Class jobs and opportunity instead of Washington’s bureaucracy.’

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell issued the following statement regarding the President’s budget:

“President Obama promised in the State of the Union to deliver a budget filled with ‘ideas that are practical, not partisan.’ Unfortunately, what we saw this morning was another top-down, backward-looking document that caters to powerful political bosses on the Left and never balances—ever. The new Congress will focus on ways to help the Middle Class instead as we work to pass the serious kind of budget all Americans deserve: one that roots out and reforms wasteful spending, and that aims to grow Middle-Class jobs and opportunity instead of Washington’s bureaucracy.

“We’re asking the President to abandon the tax-and-spend ways of yesterday and join us in this practical and future-oriented approach.”

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