Mitch McConnell Is Hurting Kentucky Workers With Unprecedented Levels Of Obstruction

Today the DSCC issued a press release on Mitch McConnell's obstructionism:

During his time as minority leader, McConnell has voted to block efforts to create jobs, provide incentives for businesses who don’t offshore, extend unemployment insurance, and pass a minimum wage increase. This week McConnell once again took aim at Kentucky’s middle class, refusing to join 17 other Republican Senators to end the filibuster of Richard Cordray as Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Mitch McConnell voted to block the American Jobs Act which would have meant hundreds of billions in tax incentives and infrastructure investments. Worse, when the U.S. Senate took up legislation to help companies cover the cost of moving workers back to the U.S. from overseas and provide incentives to businesses replacing overseas workers with jobs here at home, McConnell blocked that as well.

During the height of the economic crisis Mitch McConnell repeatedly voted to block efforts to help unemployed workers and raise the minimum wage. On legislation extending unemployment insurance, making unemployment benefits retroactive, and extending the homebuyer tax credit, McConnell chose gridlock and obstruction instead of Kentucky families.

Click here to read the entire release.