McConnell Declines Comment On Ensign Scandal

By Laura Smith, University of New Mexico-Talk Radio News Service

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) Friday declined the opportunity to comment on the scandal facing GOP Senators John Ensign (R-Nev.) and Tom Coburn (R-Ok).

“I don’t have any observations to make about the Ensign matter today,” McConnell said.

The Minority Leader’s refusal comes after the revelation that Ensign had a relationship with the wife of a former aide. Coburn has also been accused of advising Ensign to give the aide money in order to relocate to Colorado.

McConnell also touched upon the America’s Healthy Future Act, the markup of which concluded early Thursday morning.

“What we know for sure about this proposal, the core of it, is that it will include half a trillion dollars in Medicare cuts over 10 years and hundreds of billions of dollars in tax increases on both individuals and businesses,” he said.

McConnell said these are the issues the American people were responding to during the townhall protests in August.