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Democrats Ignore Economic Challenges They Created for Americans
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) delivered the following remarks today on the Senate floor regarding the economy: "Tomorrow, the Labor Department will release the latest monthly update on the Democrats' inflation. "But of course, the American people hardly need government statisticians to explain to them that Washington Democrats' reckless spending has sent prices skyrocketing. "Working families have been feeling this pain in their pocketbooks every sing… Continue Reading
09.08.22
Democrats Taking California’s Energy Failures Nationwide
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) delivered the following remarks today on the Senate floor regarding energy: "I've been talking all week about the ways that liberal policies hurt American families in their daily lives. "After two years of total Democrat control in Washington, we've seen how reckless spending comes home to roost in the form of decades-high inflation and shrinking paychecks for working Americans. "We've seen what happens when one of our tw… Continue Reading
09.07.22
Democrats’ Reckless Spending Has Hurt Kentuckians and All Americans
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) delivered the following remarks today on the Senate floor regarding inflation: "Washington Democrats have spent nearly two years borrowing, printing, and spending our economy into turmoil. "Families and businesses across Middle America are paying the price. I met with many of them in my home state of Kentucky over the past few weeks. "Since President Biden took office, prices in the Commonwealth have spiked by 13%. At the… Continue Reading
08.06.22
Democrats Who Caused Inflation Prepare Another Reckless Taxing-and-Spending Spree
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) delivered the following remarks today on the Senate floor regarding Democrats' Reckless Tax and Spending Spree: "A year and a half ago, Democrats misread a 50-50 Senate as a mandate for $1.9 trillion in party-line reckless spending. "The result has been the worst inflation in 40 years. With Democrats in charge, working families are having to spend thousands of extra dollars a year just to tread water. "Grocery costs are t… Continue Reading
07.28.22
Democrats Who Created Inflation and Recession Want Giant Job-Killing Tax Hikes
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) delivered the following remarks today on the Senate floor regarding tax hikes and inflation: "Minutes ago, new data confirmed what a supermajority of Americans already knew: Democrats have plunged America into a recession. "According to official statistics, the U.S. economy just shrank for the second consecutive quarter. Democrats inherited an economy that was primed for an historic comeback and promptly ran it straight in… Continue Reading
07.27.22
Democrats’ Spin Isn’t Helping Americans’ Inflation Pain
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) delivered the following remarks today on the Senate floor regarding economy: "Here's how Washington Democrats are describing the American economy. "From the White House last month, 'robust economic progress under President Biden's leadership.' "According to President Biden himself, our economy has, 'unique strengths that we can build on.' That it was, 'providing important breathing room for American families.' And that it… Continue Reading
07.26.22
Democrats Want to Follow Up Historic Inflation With Massive Tax Hikes
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) delivered the following remarks today on the Senate floor regarding the economy: "Ninety-three percent of the American people are concerned about inflation. "Forty-two percent say they are struggling just to stand still financially. "Sixty-three percent say that gas prices, inflation, bills, or the economy are their biggest concern. "That, Mr. President, is because 100% of the American people live in a country experienci… Continue Reading
07.14.22
Democrats’ Failed Energy Policies are Hurting Americans and Helping China
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) delivered the following remarks today on the Senate floor regarding the economy: "Yesterday's CPI report told Americans what they already knew all too well: the disastrous effects of Washington Democrats' spending binge last year still have our economy in a vice grip. "Year-on-year, inflation has hit 9.1% for the first time since the fallout of the Carter Administration. And the signs are inescapable. Price hikes on everyt… Continue Reading
07.13.22
Democrats’ Runaway Inflation Hits Another 40-Year High
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) delivered the following remarks today on the Senate floor regarding the economy: "This morning, this all-Democrat government produced yet another absolutely terrible inflation report. "Inflation during the month of June shattered the experts' predictions. We are at 9.1% annual inflation. "Yet another fresh 40-year high. The most out-of-control inflation that American families have seen since the early 1980s. "Food costs … Continue Reading
07.11.22
Democrats Want to Tax Working Americans into Recession
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) delivered the following remarks today on the Senate floor regarding the economy: "'People have literally become poorer, by any concept, over the last year… It should not be a mystery why people are worried.' "That was top liberal economist, Jason Furman, last month. And he was right on both counts. "Democrats' reckless inflationary spending has already slapped what amounts to a gigantic tax hike on working American… Continue Reading
06.16.22
Democrats May Have Inflated America Toward a Recession
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) delivered the following remarks today on the Senate floor regarding stagflation: "Before Democrats dumped $2 trillion on the economy last year, experts warned that such reckless spending would not just raise prices for working families, but could also trigger a full-on recession. "In February of 2021, for example, a prominent economist testified right here on Capitol Hill that Democrats' runaway spending might back the Fed… Continue Reading
03.16.22
Runaway Inflation Was 12 Months in the Making — Not 3 Weeks
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) delivered the following remarks today on the Senate floor regarding the economy: "Last week marked one year since Democrats rammed two trillion dollars of runaway liberal spending through the Senate on a party-line vote. "Working families were certainly not celebrating this anniversary. They were too busy contending with the worst inflation in modern American history, unleashed in large part by that very bill. "Democrats'… Continue Reading
02.02.22
Given Current COVID Facts and Science, “It Is Time for the State of Emergency to Wind Down”
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) delivered the following remarks today on the Senate floor regarding COVID-19: "This week marks two years since the federal government first declared the new coronavirus outbreak a public health emergency. "I don't need to recount the staggering number of lives lost or the terrible upheaval throughout society that our citizens have had to endure. "Two years in, it is time for leaders at all levels of our society to take a … Continue Reading
01.31.22
Working Americans Need Better Than Democrats’ Distractions
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) delivered the following remarks today on the Senate floor regarding Democrats' distractions: "Senators spent last week in our home states. We got to hear firsthand updates about the real issues facing the real families we represent. "I was especially glad to return to Western Kentucky to keep working on our recovery from the catastrophic tornadoes that hammered our state in mid-December. "Kentuckians are tough. We're resi… Continue Reading
01.20.22
365 Days of Bad Policies and Broken Promises
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) delivered the following remarks today on the Senate floor regarding President Biden's first year in office: "Today marks exactly one year since President Biden became our 46th president. "This all-Democrat government has had 365 days to start delivering on their core promises. "What were some of those promises, in their own words? "'Crushing the virus.' 'Strengthen[ing] our alliances.' And above all else, 'lower[ing] the… Continue Reading
01.12.22
“Profoundly Unpresidential”
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) delivered the following remarks today on the Senate floor regarding President Biden's speech in Georgia yesterday: "Twelve months ago, a newly-inaugurated President Biden stood on the West Front of the Capitol and said this: 'My whole soul is in this: bringing America together, uniting our people, and uniting our nation.' Yesterday, the same man delivered a deliberately divisive speech that was designed to pull our country … Continue Reading
01.04.22
American Families Need Democrats’ Reckless Taxing and Spending Spree to Stay Shelved
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) delivered the following remarks today on the Senate floor regarding Democrats' reckless tax and spending spree: "Fortunately for the country, before Christmas, one of those far-left distractions was dealt a setback. "The Democrats' wasteful spending last spring helped ignite the worst inflation in 40 years. But our colleagues spent the rest of 2021 trying to assemble another, even bigger, even more reckless taxing and spen… Continue Reading
01.04.22
Democrats Who Freely Used the Filibuster Want to Break Senate Rules for Election Law Takeover
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) delivered the following remarks today on the Senate floor regarding Democrats' federal election takeover: "When our colleagues' reckless taxing and spending spree began to falter, some Democrats started saying a totally different issue was actually their top priority. "If they don't get to blow $5 trillion on low-quality socialism, our colleagues are now demanding a consolation prize: Breaking the Senate's rules in order t… Continue Reading
12.16.21
Denied $4.9T Spending Spree, Democrats Call for Breaking the Senate and Packing the Court
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) delivered the following remarks today on the Senate floor regarding governing institutions: "As cracks keep forming in the Democrats' reckless taxing and spending spree, some of our colleagues seemed to channel their frustration into even more radical attempts to attack our governing institutions. "In the span of a few hours, one Senate Democrat had renewed calls to 'nuke' the Senate and break the rules, and another publis… Continue Reading
