Mitch McConnell Says He Wants To Govern Like This Democrat

The Senate Minority Leader tells TIME who he would aim to emulate the most should he become Senate Majority Leader next year and also talks partisanship, the importance of congeniality and how Kentucky has changed over the last 29 years

If Mitch McConnell becomes Senate Majority Leader next year, he says his leadership style will most resemble that of George Mitchell, the Maine Democrat who held the job from 1989 to 1995. McConnell is not attracted to Mitchell’s policies, but he likes the Democrat’s style.

“He treated everyone with respect,” McConnell tells TIME in an interview. “The Senate needs to run in a more collegial and open way than [under] the current majority leader, who has prevented members from both parties from offering amendments and basically done a lot of damage to the institution, in my opinion.

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