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Opinion Mitch McConnell: Behold the Democrat Politician Protection Act

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January 17, 2019 at 4:01 p.m. EST
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.). (Melina Mara/The Washington Post)
correction

An earlier version of this column stated incorrectly that 23,000 ineligible voters were permitted to register to vote recently in California. The figure referred to registration errors such as wrongly recorded party affiliations, not ineligible voters. This version has been updated.

Mitch McConnell, a Republican from Kentucky, is majority leader of the U.S. Senate.

For the past two years, our united Republican government drained money and power from Washington and returned it to states, communities and families. From middle-class tax cuts to regulatory reform, we took this approach and watched the nation thrive more as a result.