![]() FEC that partially overturned the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (McCain-Feingold) in 2010. He led opposition to stricter campaign finance laws, culminating in the Supreme Court ruling Citizens United v. McConnell holds conservative political positions, although he was known as a pragmatist and a moderate Republican early in his political career. ![]() In November 2006 he was elected Senate minority leader – the post he held until Republicans took control of the Senate in 2015. He was elected Majority Whip in the 108th Congress and re-elected to the post in 2004. During the 19 election cycles, he was chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. Senate in 1984 and is the second Kentuckian to serve as a party leader in the Senate. McConnell first served as a Deputy United States Assistant Attorney General under President Gerald Ford from 1974 until 1975 and went on to serve as Jefferson County Judge/Executive from 1977 until 1984 in his home state of Kentucky. ![]() A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as Senate majority leader from 2015 to 2021, and as minority leader from 2007 to 2015. ![]() Currently in his seventh term, McConnell has held the seat since 1985. Addison Mitchell McConnell III (born February 20, 1942) is an American politician and retired attorney serving as the senior United States senator from Kentucky and the Senate minority leader since 2021.
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