Interesting week January 2, 2017

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What is Mitch actually going to do? Apart from being reelected, that doesn't seem to be his strong suit..

A few things are curiously missing from the Mitch McConnell-Elaine Chao Archives at the University of Louisville. At an exhibit designed to celebrate the Senate Majority Leader and his wife, there’s almost no mention of any bills McConnell has authored in his 32 years in the Senate. There’s virtually nothing about the people he’s helped, nothing to highlight courageous speeches made on the Senate floor.

Instead, McConnell's exhibit almost entirely pays homage to the elections he’s won — for high school student government; for Louisville county executive; for his first election to the Kentucky Senate; for his reelection bids to the Senate.

“All the things he chooses to present to the people who come there are about his races,” says Alec MacGillis, a ProPublica reporter and author of a 2014 McConnell biography, The Cynic: The Political Education of Mitch McConnell, in an interview. "And that's all it is. There's almost nothing in those rooms about what he's actually accomplished in all of the decades he’s been in office."

Mitch McConnell’s entire career has been about gaining power. What happens now that he has it? - Vox