
Mitch McConnell
Republican · KY · U.S. Senate
Mitch McConnell is not among the listed candidates for this seat — the seat is still up in 2026. Charles Booker vs. Andy Barr.
Bio
Addison Mitchell McConnell III is an American politician and attorney serving as the senior United States senator from Kentucky, a seat he has held since 1985. A member of the Republican Party, McConnell is in his seventh Senate term, making him the longest-serving senator in Kentucky history. He served from 2007 to 2025 as the leader of the Senate Republican Conference, including two stints as minority leader, and was majority leader from 2015 to 2021, making him the longest-serving Senate party leader in U.S. history.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 41.6 years
- First took office
- 1985 (7 terms)
- Seniority
- 6 of 100 by time served
- Age
- 84
- Senate class
- 2 · senior senator
- Senate Minority Leader · 2007–2015
- Senate Majority Leader · 2015–2021
- Senate Minority Leader · 2021–2025
- Bowling Green, KY · 270-781-1673
- Fort Wright, KY · 859-578-0188
- Lexington, KY · 859-224-8286
- London, KY · 606-864-2026
- Louisville, KY · 502-582-6304
- Paducah, KY · 270-442-4554
Service history, offices and identifiers from unitedstates/congress-legislators (public domain). Years served sum each term rather than subtracting the first start date, so a break in service is not counted as time in office.
Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)
Issue profile
Each issue runs left ↔ right, scored from how the member voted on bills tagged to that issue (−1…+1). Issues with too few votes are blank. Overall lean uses DW-NOMINATE.
How they score against the parties
Mitch McConnell's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.
On the political map
Mitch McConnell (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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Caucuses & committees
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Committees
- Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestrycenter · 23 members
- Senate Committee on Appropriationscenter · 29 membersEnergy and Water DevelopmentDepartment of Interior, Environment, and Related AgenciesMilitary Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related AgenciesState, Foreign Operations, and Related ProgramsAgriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related AgenciesDepartment of Defense (Chairman)
Most and least aligned members
Treating McConnell's 14 issue scores as a vector, cosine similarity measures whether two voting records point the same way (+100%) or in opposite directions (−100%) — the colleagues whose records align most and least with theirs.
Recent notable votes
Latest news
Mitch McConnell Has Been Missing for 75 Days—With No UpdatesIt’s been at least 75 days since Senator Mitch McConnell has been seen in public. Yet on Thursday—despite McConnell supposedly being weeks into an intensive rehabilitation routine—his team blatantly refused to provide a progress report.The last time his offic…
The New Republic · Yesterday
Pro-MAGA Pundit Accuses Scott Jennings of Lying About McConnell Call in Wild CNN Throwdown: ‘How Is He?’Jennings was confronted on CNN over his claims to have spoken with hospitalized Senator Mitch McConnell by fellow pro-MAGA pundit Caroline Sunshine. The post Pro-MAGA Pundit Accuses Scott Jennings of Lying About McConnell Call in Wild CNN Throwdown: ‘How Is H…
Mediaite · Yesterday
Transcript: The Mistake That Progressive Candidates Keep MakingThis is a lightly edited transcript of the August 26 edition of Right Now With Perry Bacon. You can watch the video here or by following this show on YouTube or Substack.Michael Podhorzer: We’re going to kick off, and folks will join. Hopefully you all know o…
The New Republic · August 27, 2026
Vital empty Senate chair hands Dems knife to gut GOP's biggest bill: analysisCongressional Democrats are playing hardball on the farm bill, and with the midterms approaching, they appear to see little reason to fold.The clearest sign came at an Aug. 6 markup, where Democrats blocked the bill from advancing in the Senate Agriculture Co…
Raw Story · August 24, 2026
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