Mitch McConnell is the US Senate Republican Leader. On January 3, 2023, he became the longest-serving Senate Party Leader in American history, elected to lead the Republican conference nine times since 2006. From 2015 to 2021, McConnell served as Senate Majority Leader. He previously served in leadership as the Majority Whip in the 108th and 109th Congresses and as chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee during the 1998 and 2000 election cycles. McConnell has been praised in numerous media outlets for his consequential Senate leadership. He’s been called “the most important Republican since Ronald Reagan” and “the most conservative leader of either party in the history of the Senate.” TIME Magazine twice named McConnell one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World. First elected to the Senate in 1984, McConnell is Kentucky’s longest-serving senator. On November 3, 2020, he was elected to a record seventh term, winning 117 of the Commonwealth’s 120 counties.
