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Chair, Senate Committee on Rules and Administration
Mitch McConnell is a Republican senator from Kentucky and a longtime Senate leader. In the 119th Congress he is no longer the party floor leader, but the Senate’s current assignments page lists him as Chair of the Committee on Rules and Administration.
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Mitch McConnell is a Republican senator from Kentucky and a longtime Senate leader. In the 119th Congress he is no longer the party floor leader, but the Senate’s current assignments page lists him as Chair of the Committee on Rules and Administration.
Open biography & office record ↓Mitch McConnell is a Republican senator from Kentucky and a longtime Senate leader. In the 119th Congress he is no longer the party floor leader, but the Senate’s current assignments page lists him as Chair of the Committee on Rules and Administration.
The Senate also lists McConnell on Agriculture and Appropriations, including chairmanship of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense, along with chair roles on the Joint Committee on Printing and the Agriculture Subcommittee on Food and Nutrition, Specialty Crops, Organics, and Research.
The profile distinguishes his current committee authority from his former position as Senate Republican leader. Historical influence or current committee service is not itself a fact-checkable controversy.
