McConnell says 'era of dysfunction in the Senate is over'
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It has been about six months since Kentucky senior Sen. Mitch McConnell was sworn in as majority leader of the U.S. Senate, a promotion that McConnell says comes with "a humbling experience almost every day."
"Someone described being the majority leader of the Senate as being a little bit like being the groundskeeper at a cemetery — everybody's under you but nobody's listening," McConnell recently joked.
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Fresh off a marquee victory, in which McConnell joined with President Barack Obama to pass fast-track trade authority against the wishes of traditional Democratic groups, the senator was able to point to a scorecard that demonstrates how differently the Senate has conducted its business compared to last year.
In 2014, there were 15 amendment votes allowed. So far this year, there have been more than 130. More than 40 bipartisan bills have passed, 18 have been signed into law by the president, and the Senate, for the first time in a long time, was able to pass a budget.
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