Senator · Kentucky

Mitch McConnell

Mitch McConnell is a Republican senator from Kentucky, in Congress since 1985. In the 119th Congress, 915 roll calls were held while they served; they missed 137, and cast 700 of 725 party-unity votes with the majority of their caucus.

Party
Republican
Chamber
Senate
Current
In Congress since
Jan 3, 1985
Term ends
Jan 3, 2027
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Photo: Government Publishing Office (public domain)

Record by Congress

Counts with their denominators for each Congress and chamber served. Ranks are among members who served most of that Congress (100 or more roll calls): rank 1 did it most often. A description, not a grade.

CongressRoll callsMissedVotes with partySponsoredCosponsored across the aisle
119th CongressSenate91515.0%137 of 915 · rank 1 of 10197%700 of 725 · rank 71 of 101141 became law22%15 of 68
118th CongressSenate6915.5%38 of 691 · rank 29 of 10186%436 of 505 · rank 91 of 10180 became law38%41 of 108
117th CongressSenate9492.4%23 of 949 · rank 52 of 10082%611 of 745 · rank 88 of 100150 became law45%42 of 94

Ideology (DW-NOMINATE)

Voteview's DW-NOMINATE first dimension estimates where members sit from all their roll calls: liberal (−1) to conservative (+1). It describes voting patterns, not views. Shown for the 119th Congress (Senate), with each party's median and the chamber's range.

Liberal −1+0.40+1 Conservative

Source: Lewis, Jeffrey B., Keith Poole, Howard Rosenthal, Adam Boche, Aaron Rudkin, and Luke Sonnet (2026). Voteview: Congressional Roll-Call Votes Database. https://voteview.com/

Votes against their party

The latest party-unity votes on bills and amendments where the member voted yea or nay against most of their caucus.

  1. H.R. 7148: Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026Nay
    Jan 30, 2026· Senate· Amendments· On the Amendment· Amendment Rejected 32–67· Against party
  2. S.J.Res. 88: A joint resolution terminating the national emergency declared to impose global tariffs.Yea
    Oct 30, 2025· Senate· Passage· On the Joint Resolution· Joint Resolution Passed 51–47· Against party
  3. S.J.Res. 77: A joint resolution terminating the national emergency declared to impose duties on articles imported from Canada.Yea
    Oct 29, 2025· Senate· Passage· On the Joint Resolution· Joint Resolution Passed 50–46· Against party
  4. S.J.Res. 81: A joint resolution terminating the national emergency declared to impose duties on articles imported from Brazil.Yea
    Oct 28, 2025· Senate· Passage· On the Joint Resolution· Joint Resolution Passed 52–48· Against party
  5. S. 2296: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026Nay
    Oct 9, 2025· Senate· Amendments· On the Amendment· Amendment Rejected 53–43· Against party
  6. H.R. 4: Rescissions Act of 2025Yea
    Jul 17, 2025· Senate· Amendments· On the Amendment· Amendment Rejected 49–50· Against party
  7. H.R. 4: Rescissions Act of 2025Yea
    Jul 16, 2025· Senate· Amendments· On the Amendment· Amendment Rejected 49–50· Against party
  8. S.J.Res. 37: A joint resolution terminating the national emergency declared to impose duties on articles imported from Canada.Yea
    Apr 2, 2025· Senate· Passage· On the Joint Resolution· Joint Resolution Passed 51–48· Against party

Recent votes

The latest roll calls on bills and amendments, with the member's recorded position.

  1. S. 4668: Protect College Sports Act of 2026Yea
    Sep 28, 2026· Senate· Passage· On Passage of the Bill· Bill Passed 77–22
  2. S. 4668: Protect College Sports Act of 2026Nay
    Sep 28, 2026· Senate· Amendments· On the Amendment· Amendment Rejected 47–52
  3. S. 4668: Protect College Sports Act of 2026Nay
    Sep 28, 2026· Senate· Amendments· On the Amendment· Amendment Rejected 49–50
  4. S. 4668: Protect College Sports Act of 2026Nay
    Sep 28, 2026· Senate· Amendments· On the Amendment· Amendment Rejected 42–54
  5. S. 4668: Protect College Sports Act of 2026Nay
    Sep 28, 2026· Senate· Amendments· On the Amendment· Amendment Rejected 1–94
  6. S. 4668: Protect College Sports Act of 2026Yea
    Sep 28, 2026· Senate· Amendments· On the Amendment· Amendment Agreed to 96–1
  7. H.Con.Res. 89: Directing the President, pursuant to section 5(c) of the War Powers Resolution, to remove United States Armed Forces from hostilities with Iran.Nay
    Sep 24, 2026· Senate· Passage· On the Concurrent Resolution· Concurrent Resolution Rejected 49–50
  8. S. 4668: Protect College Sports Act of 2026Yea
    Sep 24, 2026· Senate· Amendments· On the Amendment· Amendment Agreed to 77–23
  9. H.R. 6500: Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2027Not voting
    Aug 8, 2026· Senate· Passage· On Passage of the Bill· Bill Passed 90–6
  10. H.R. 5334: Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026Not voting
    Aug 7, 2026· Senate· Passage· On Passage of the Bill· Bill Passed 86–11
  11. H.R. 5334: Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026Not voting
    Aug 7, 2026· Senate· Amendments· On the Amendment· Amendment Rejected 32–64
  12. S.Res. 817: An executive resolution authorizing the en bloc consideration in Executive Session of certain nominations on the Executive Calendar.Not voting
    Jul 30, 2026· Senate· Passage· On the Resolution· Resolution Agreed to 50–47

Sponsored bills

Bills and resolutions the member introduced as sponsor in the loaded Congresses. Volume is not quality: most measures never leave committee.

37 sponsored · 1 became law

How far they got

  1. Introduced1541%
  2. Reported by committee25.4%
  3. Passed one chamber1643%
  4. Passed both chambers38.1%
  5. Became law12.7%

Policy areas

  1. Congress15
  2. Government Operations and Politics4
  3. Public Lands and Natural Resources4
  4. Crime and Law Enforcement3
  5. Environmental Protection3
  6. Health2
  7. Economics and Public Finance1
  8. Labor and Employment1

Latest activity

  1. S.Res. 860 A resolution recognizing September 15, 2026, as "National Voter Registration Day".
    Passed one chamber· Government Operations and Politics· Sep 16, 2026
  2. S. 1674 Mammoth Cave National Park Boundary Adjustment Act of 2025
    Introduced· Public Lands and Natural Resources· Jul 21, 2026
  3. S. 4530 A bill to amend chapters 83 and 84 of title 5, United States Code, to authorize an increase of the retirement age for members of the Capitol Police.
    Became law· Government Operations and Politics· May 29, 2026
  4. S.Res. 388 A resolution recognizing September 16, 2025, as "National Voter Registration Day".
    Passed one chamber· Government Operations and Politics· Sep 15, 2025
  5. S.Res. 362 A resolution to provide for the printing of the Senate Manual for the One Hundred Nineteenth Congress.
    Passed one chamber· Congress· Jul 31, 2025
  6. S. 2572 Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2026
    Reported by committee· Economics and Public Finance· Jul 31, 2025
  7. S.Con.Res. 12 A concurrent resolution authorizing the use of Emancipation Hall in the Capitol Visitor Center for a ceremony to present the Congressional Gold Medal, collectively, to the United States Army Rangers Veterans of World War II.
    Passed both chambers· Congress· May 8, 2025
  8. S. 930 A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude from gross income capital gains from the sale of certain farmland property which are reinvested in individual retirement plans.
    Introduced· Taxation· Mar 11, 2025

Committees

Seats as published by the congress-legislators project. Past seats are those no longer listed since Analisa began recording them.

Current seats

Campaign money

What the member's campaigns reported receiving, per FEC two-year cycle, and the federal contracts of the organizations that sponsor the giving PACs (each sponsor matched to a contract recipient by AI, with its probability). Comparisons of public records: neither explains the other.

2026 cycle

Raised
$217.4K
through Jun 30, 2026
Cash on hand
$7.3M
From committees
-$105.7K
3 committees
From contractor PACs
-$21K
1 PACs · — of committee money
IndividualsPACsPartySelf

Largest gifts from PACs of federal contractors, 2026

PAC sponsorGivenMatched contract recipientIts contracts, FY2026
johnson & johnsonjohnson & johnson political action committee$5,000JOHNSON & JOHNSON VISION CARE INCAI match · 100% · of one corporate family—

By cycle

CycleRaised (FEC summary)From committeesFrom contractor PACs
2026$217.4K-$105.7K-$21K1 PACs · — of committee money
2024$1.2M$258.9K$67K21 PACs · 26% of committee money
2022$6.5M$938.1K$122.1K38 PACs · 13% of committee money

Raised is the FEC's cumulative summary of the candidacy; committee money counts each contribution reported, so the two cover slightly different dates.

Terms

Every term in the House or Senate, as published by the congress-legislators project.

  1. Senate · KentuckyJan 3, 2021 – Jan 3, 2027
  2. Senate · KentuckyJan 6, 2015 – Jan 3, 2021
  3. Senate · KentuckyJan 6, 2009 – Jan 3, 2015
  4. Senate · KentuckyJan 7, 2003 – Jan 3, 2009
  5. Senate · KentuckyJan 7, 1997 – Jan 3, 2003
  6. Senate · KentuckyJan 3, 1991 – Jan 3, 1997
  7. Senate · KentuckyJan 3, 1985 – Jan 3, 1991

Contact

Official channels, as published.

Website
www.mcconnell.senate.gov
Phone
202-224-2541
Office
317 Russell Senate Office Building
Contact form
Contact form

Identifiers

The same member in other public records.

Sources and method

Every figure on this page traces to these records.

  • Members of Congress, their terms, committees and identifiers (The @unitedstates project (from the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress, the House and the Senate))unitedstates/congress-legislators: legislators, committees and current committee membership · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)
  • House roll-call votes (Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives)Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives, roll-call vote records · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Senate roll-call votes and DW-NOMINATE scores (Voteview (UCLA Department of Political Science))Lewis, Jeffrey B., Keith Poole, Howard Rosenthal, Adam Boche, Aaron Rudkin, and Luke Sonnet (2026). Voteview: Congressional Roll-Call Votes Database. https://voteview.com/ · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Free to use with the required citation
  • Bill status: bills and resolutions, sponsors, actions, subjects and CRS summaries (U.S. Government Publishing Office (GovInfo), from Congress.gov (Library of Congress))GovInfo Bill Status bulk data (Congress.gov; summaries by the Congressional Research Service) · data current to Oct 9, 2026 · loaded Oct 9, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Congressional district boundaries and relationship files (U.S. Census Bureau)U.S. Census Bureau, Cartographic Boundary Files (congressional districts) and 2020 relationship files · release cd116+cd118+cd119 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission)FEC bulk data: committee master, candidate master (candidates' names, no addresses), linkages, PAC summaries, all-candidates summaries and contributions from committees (no individual contributors) · data current to Oct 9, 2026 · loaded Oct 9, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov)USAspending.gov, prime award contract transactions (FPDS) · data current to Oct 9, 2026 · loaded Oct 9, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Positions are shown only where a roll call recorded them; voice votes and unanimous consent record none.
  • Activity counts describe volume and attendance; they are not a measure of quality.
  • Money and votes are shown side by side; neither explains the other.