McConnell on Fox News Channel’s ‘The Ingraham Angle’ with Laura Ingraham
“This is full-bore socialism on the march in the House and as long as I’m the Majority Leader of the Senate, none of that stuff is going anywhere.”
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) joined Laura Ingraham on Fox News Channel’s ‘The Ingraham Angle’ to discuss stopping socialism and reshaping the federal judiciary. See below for highlights or click here to watch to the full interview.
On stopping the Democrats’ socialist agenda:
“For the first time in my memory, I agree with Nancy Pelosi. I am indeed the Grim Reaper when it comes to the socialist agenda that they have been ginning up over in the House with overwhelming Democratic support and sending it over to America things that would turn us into a country we have never been. They are on their way to doing some additional things, in addition to the ones they have already done, the Green New Deal, Medicare for All – and by the way, you may have mentioned this on your show but they have planned to make the District of Columbia a state, that would give them two new Democratic senators, Puerto Rico a state, to give them two more new Democratic senators. And as a former Supreme Court clerk yourself, you've surely noticed that they plan to expand to the Supreme Court. So this is full-bore socialism on the march in the House and yeah, as long as I’m the Majority Leader of the Senate, none of that stuff is going anywhere.”
On House Democrats’ investigations:
“They just can't let it go, Laura. I said weeks ago, ‘case closed.’ … Nobody has any confidence that the Democratic House is going to engage in any kind of appropriate oversight. The case is closed. Why don’t we move on and solve the border crisis?”
On reshaping the federal judiciary:
“The kind of people we've been nominating believe in the simple, quaint notion that maybe the judges ought to follow the law. I’m amazed that that’s controversial … with regard to the nominees, not only did the President make two great Supreme Court nominees in Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanagh. Look, we are making an important difference for the country that will last for a very long time and my motto for this Congress is: ‘leave no vacancy behind.’”
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