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**FILE** From left: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat, House Speaker John Boehner, Ohio Republican, and Vice President Joseph R. Biden participate in a ceremony on Capitol Hill in Washington on June 19, 2013. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes is the Democratic Party opponent of Sen. Mitch McConnell. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican, accompanied by Senate Minority Whip John Cornyn (right), Texas Republican, and Sen. John Barrasso, Wyoming Republican, speaks with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington on June 18, 2013. (Associated Press)

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Vice President Joe Biden shares a laugh with Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, second from left, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, second from right, during a congressional ceremony to commemorate the dedication and unveiling of a statue of Frederick Douglass in Emancipation Hall of the the United States Visitors Center, Washington, D.C., Wednesday, June 19, 2013. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican, and the Senate GOP leadership answer questions following a Republican strategy session on Capitol Hill in Washington on June 4, 2013. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican, speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday, May 21, 2013, following a Republican policy luncheon. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican, points to a 7-foot stack of “Obamacare” regulations to underscore his disdain for President Obama's health care overhaul during an appearance at the 40th annual Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Md., on Friday, March 15, 2013. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

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** FILE ** Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican, answers questions from reporters following a GOP strategy session on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday, April 9, 2013. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)