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Mitch McConnell: Senate ‘Didn’t Do Squat for Years’
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., center, joined by Senate Minority Whip John Cornyn of Texas, right, and Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., the Senate Republican Conference chairman, speaks with reporters following a closed-door policy meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2014. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
(Politico) – Incoming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says his biggest challenge will be righting the course of Congress, adding — in a swipe at outgoing Majority Leader Harry Reid — that his own chamber “basically didn’t do squat for years.”
In an interview with The New York Times published Monday, McConnell also took a shot at his party’s tea party wing, which has resisted most forms of new spending.
“One of my challenges is to try to convince some of my members that passing an appropriations bill is a good thing, not a bad thing,” McConnell said.
“The Senate basically didn’t do squat for years. I don’t think most members of the Senate wanted it run that way,” McConnell said.
