“The Senate is allowed to work the way it was designed to - meaning a place where nothing is decided without a good dose of deliberation and debate, as well as input from both the majority and minority parties - it arrives at a result that is acceptable to people all along the political spectrum.”

American politician and attorney

Addison Mitchell McConnell III is an American politician and attorney. He has served as a United States senator from Kentucky since 1985 and has been the state's senior senator since 1999. A Republican, McConnell has served in his seventh Senate term and is the longest-serving senator in Kentucky history. He led the Senate Republican Conference from 2007 to 2025, including one term as majority leader and two as minority leader, and became the longest-serving Senate party leader in U.S. history.