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Bloomberg
Mitch McConnell is set to break Democrat Mike Mansfield’s record as longest-serving Senate party leader when he starts his 17th year as Republican leader — a mark of stability in a Capitol riven by chaos on the House side of the building.
McConnell, 80, is now poised to serve as he did a dozen years ago: As a key negotiator and deal-maker with a Democratic president, a newly empowered but divided House Republican majority, and a Democratic
Senate. Mansfield served as Senate majority leader for a momentous and turbulent 16 years from 1961 to 1977, shepherding passage of sweeping legislation from civil rights to the creation of Medicare and Medicaid. The late Montana senator will hold the record for most years as majority leader, but McConnell will top him as leader of his party.