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McConnell Statement on the President’s Budget

February 2, 2015

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.”

Senator McConnell Joins Committee Overseeing EPA Budget; Remains Committed to Fighting Agency of Behalf of Kentucky’s Coal Miners

February 2, 2015

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced that he has joined the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies for the 114th Congress. The panel oversees the budget for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
 
“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,” Senator McConnell said. “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.”
 
Senator McConnell will also serve on the following Appropriations subcommittees for the 114th Congress: Agriculture, Rural Development; Defense; Energy and Water Development; Military Construction and Veterans Affairs; and State, Foreign Operations.

Veterans Bill, Homeland Security Funding, Up Next in Senate

‘The House-passed bill we’ll consider would do two things: fund the Department of Homeland Security, and rein-in executive overreach.’

January 30, 2015

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell made the following remarks on the Senate floor regarding passage of the Keystone jobs bill, the Clay Hunt Act and DHS funding:

“The Senate’s passage of the Keystone jobs bill is great news for the American people.

“Now, the Senate will soon turn its attention to a few different matters.

“First, we’ll be voting on a bipartisan measure that’s been championed by the Chairs of the Veterans Affairs and Armed Services Committees.

“We lose thousands of our heroes every year to suicide. It’s a tragic situation, and Senators McCain and Isakson are leading efforts to do something about it. Their legislation would provide more of the mental-health and suicide-prevention support our veterans deserve. The measure already passed unanimously through the House of Representatives.

“Now we hope for a bipartisan outcome here on the Senate floor.

“The same should also be said of the second piece of legislation we’ll consider.

“It’s a debate that will challenge our colleagues on the other side with a simple proposition: do they think presidents, of either party, should have the power to simply ignore laws they don’t like?

“Will our Democrat colleagues work with us to defend key democratic ideals like separation of powers and the rule of law, or will they stand tall for the idea that partisan exercises of raw power are good things?

“The House-passed bill we’ll consider would do two things: fund the Department of Homeland Security, and rein-in executive overreach.

“That’s it. It’s simple. And there’s no reason for Democrats to block it.”

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