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Mitch McConnell

R

Sen. KY · U.S. Senate · 7 terms

Congress is in session today
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attendance
Vote attendance live
49%
49/100 · beats 2% of the Senate
Votes missed live
51
of the last 100 Senate roll calls
Committees live
5
standing committee seats

Political perspective

from the voting record
More liberalMore conservative

On the standard liberal–conservative scale, McConnell sits more conservative than 54% of the Senate and more liberal than 45%. This is a DW-NOMINATE score — derived purely from how they vote, not an opinion.

Their positions, in their own words

We link to what McConnellsays they stand for so you can hold it against the record above. We don't put words in anyone's mouth or declare a promise “kept” or “broken” — where there's no published, structured position to compare, we leave it to you rather than invent a verdict.

Contact

They work for you — reach the office.

www.mcconnell.senate.gov
D.C. office: 202-224-2541
317 Russell Senate Office Building

Campaign money

live· 2026 cycle
Total raised
$217K
From PACs
6.9%
$15K
From individuals
9%
$19K
Cash on hand
$7.3M

“From PACs” is corporate, industry, and union political-committee money — a proxy for special-interest funding. Totals via the FEC.

Top sponsors · largest organizational donors
  • FREEDOM FUNDOther / unclassified$10K
  • TOMORROW IS MEANINGFUL PACOther / unclassified$5K
  • JOHNSON & JOHNSON POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEECorporate$5K
Where the PAC money comes from
  • Other / unclassified75%
  • Corporate25%

Largest PACs and committees giving to the campaign this cycle, from FEC committee-to-candidate filings. The FEC doesn't tag donors by industry — the names usually tell you, and OpenSecrets has the formal industry breakdown below.

Where the money goes

live· 2026 cycle

McConnell's campaign has spent $153K across 157 reported disbursements.

Top payees
  • CAVALRY LLC$22K
  • HUCKABY DAVIS LISKER INC.$22K
  • VERIZON WIRELESS$20K
  • FORCHT BANK VISA$15K
  • HANEY CONSULTING$15K
  • K.S. AIR$12K

Categories are grouped by keyword from the free-text purpose each campaign reports to the FEC, so the split is a guide, not an audit. Otheris spending whose reported purpose didn't clearly fit a category — campaigns describe disbursements inconsistently. Totals are for the candidate's campaign committees this cycle; see the FEC for the line-by-line record.

Background

Represents Kentucky · age 84 · from Sheffield.

Addison Mitchell McConnell III is an American politician and attorney who has been a United States senator from Kentucky since 1985 and has been Kentucky's senior U.S. senator since 1999. A member of the Republican Party, McConnell is in his seventh Senate term, making him the longest-serving senator in Kentucky history. He led the Senate Republican Conference from 2007 to 2025, with two stints as minority leader and one stint as majority leader (2015–2021), making him the longest-serving Senate party leader in U.S. history.

Before Congress
lawyerjudgelegislative assistant
Education
University of LouisvilleUniversity of KentuckyUniversity of Kentucky College of Law
Awards
Order of Merit, 1st class
Family
Elaine Chao

Biography from Wikipedia & Wikidata (public, CC BY-SA). Family is spouse and children only.

Stock trades

Senators disclose their trades through the Senate's system. See McConnell's filings:

Committees

live

What they're assigned to work on.

via congress-legislators committee data.

Who they're up against

Candidates who have filed with the FEC for this Senate seat— who's challenging them now, and who they faced last time.

Next election

· 2026 cycle
Other-party challengers
  • Amy McGrathDemocratOpen seat

    Amy Melinda McGrath is an American former Marine fighter pilot and political candidate from Kentucky. McGrath was the first woman to fly a combat mission for the Marine Corps and the first woman to pilot the F/A-18 in a combat mission. (Wikipedia ↗)

  • Dale RomansDemocratOpen seat
  • Charles BookerDemocratOpen seat

    Charles Booker is an American politician from the Commonwealth of Kentucky. From 2019 to 2021 he represented Kentucky's 43rd House district, making him the state's youngest Black lawmaker. He is the Democratic nominee for the 2026 U.S. Senate election in Kentucky. (Wikipedia ↗)

  • Joel WillettDemocratOpen seat
  • Pamela StevensonDemocratOpen seat

    Pamela D. Stevenson is an American politician, attorney, and retired U.S. Air Force Colonel. She is a Democrat and represents District 43 in the Kentucky State House. (Wikipedia ↗)

  • Logan ForsytheDemocratOpen seat
Primary challengers (same party)
  • Nate MorrisRepublicanOpen seat
  • Garland Andy BarrRepublicanOpen seat
  • Daniel CameronRepublicanOpen seat

    Daniel Jay Cameron is an American attorney and politician who served as the 51st attorney general of Kentucky from 2019 to 2024. A member of the Republican Party, Cameron was the first African American and the first Republican since 1943 to be elected to the office. (Wikipedia ↗)

  • Michael FarisRepublicanOpen seat
  • Donald Ray WenzelRepublicanCandidate

+ 9 other minor candidates with little or no money raised.

Candidates and money raised from FEC filings (bulk candidate summaries). Short bios are quoted from Wikipedia or Ballotpedia where a confident match exists — never invented; candidates without a sourced bio show their FEC record only.

How Mitch actually voted · last 15 bills live

Real roll-call votes from the U.S. House Clerk. “Missed” = recorded as Not Voting.

Congressional calendar · next 12 days

in session recess weekend
Sat 8
weekend
Sun 9
weekend
Mon 10
August recess
Tue 11
August recess
Wed 12
August recess
Thu 13
August recess
Fri 14
August recess
Sat 15
August recess
Sun 16
August recess
Mon 17
August recess
Tue 18
August recess
Wed 19
August recess

The public House legislative schedule — the same for every member, not anyone's personal whereabouts. No flight data, home locations, or real-time tracking.

Every figure here is real and sourced: identity, party, seat, term history, committees and contact (congress-legislators); vote attendance, missed votes & how they voted (U.S. Senate (senate.gov), last 100 roll calls through August 5, 2026); campaign money raised and spent (FEC); stock-trade disclosures (U.S. House Clerk Periodic Transaction Reports); declared election opponents & the money they raised (FEC candidate filings), with opponent bios quoted from Wikipedia or Ballotpedia where a confident match exists; ideological placement (DW-NOMINATE, voteview.com) and party-unity (computed from the roll calls above); biography (Wikidata + Wikipedia); the 2026 session calendar (official schedule). Nothing on this page is invented. wheresmyguy? carries no flight data, home locations, or real-time tracking. Time-stamped information is delayed at least 4 hours by design — wheresmyguy? is never a real-time tracker.