US 上院 leader: 勝利者s make 政策, losers go home
LAWRENCEBURG, Ky. (AP) - Nearly 1,000 people jeered 上院 大多数 Leader Mitch McConnell as he drove to a speech Tuesday where he told 地元の 商売／仕事 leaders that "勝利者s make 政策 and the losers go home."
抗議する人s （人が）群がるd the American Legion 地位，任命する 34 Fairgrounds, kept at bay by several police officers and a chain link 盗品故買者. The （人が）群がる 詠唱するd "No 禁止（する）, no 塀で囲む, Mitch McConnell take our call" - a 言及／関連 to 十分な voicemail boxes at the 上院議員's offices - as McConnell drove past in a 黒人／ボイコット SUV. It was the first of several scheduled public 外見s for McConnell this week during a congressional 休会. 抗議する人s upset with 共和国の／共和党の 大統領 Donald Trump's 政策s have 公約するd to follow McConnell to every stop.
A handful of 反体制者s were able to RSVP for a seat to hear McConnell's speech. One woman, 54-year-old Rose Perkins of Georgetown, stood and wagged her finger at McConnell as she asked him about the thousands of coal 職業s that have disappeared in eastern Kentucky.
A group numbering in the hundreds gather outside the American Legion 地位，任命する 34 to 抗議する the 外見 of 上院 大多数 Leader Mitch McConnell R-Ky., and the 政策s of the Trump 行政 Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2017, in Lawrenceburg, Ky. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley)
"If you'll answer that, I'll sit 負かす／撃墜する and shut up like Elizabeth 過密な住居," Perkins said, a 言及／関連 to McConnell invoking 上院 支配するs to silence the Massachusetts 上院議員 during her speech …に反対するing Jeff 開会／開廷／会期s' 確定／確認 as U.S. 弁護士／代理人／検事 general.
After a 簡潔な／要約する pause filled with gasps from the mostly friendly （人が）群がる, McConnell replied: "I hope you feel better now."
全国的な, 共和国の／共和党のs are 直面するing angry 選挙権を持つ／選挙人s 失望させるd by the 大統領，／社長's 閣僚 任命s and 計画（する）s to 廃止する the Affordable Care 行為／法令／行動する, the 連邦の health care 法律 credited with 徹底的に cutting 減ずるing the number of uninsured people while also 運動ing up the cost of 月毎の 賞与金s. 非，不，無 have 直面するd more scrutiny than McConnell, who is managing a 狭くする 大多数 to 押し進める through the 大統領，／社長's 協議事項 and 閣僚 任命s.
Several people stood and booed as McConnell finished his 発言／述べるs, 含むing answering a few questions about the Affordable Care 行為／法令／行動する and 規則s on the 財政上の 産業 課すd by the 法律制定 known as Dodd-Frank. McConnell was 大部分は unfazed by those he called "the people outside," 説 he was "proud" of them for 表明するing their 見解（をとる）s.
But he also told his mostly friendly audience that the 抗議する人s "had their 発射," 追加するing: "勝利者s make 政策 and the losers go home."
明確な／細部 詳細（に述べる）s of a 交替／補充 計画（する） have not yet been made public, a fact 32-year-old Robert Brown 設立する troubling. He traveled from Lexington to 抗議する McConnell while in the 車椅子 he uses because of spina bifida. He worried that 廃止するing the 法律 would make it hard er for him to get 保険.
"Sen. McConnell is not 持つ／拘留するing town hall 会合s," Brown said. "He's 持つ／拘留するing 私的な 会合s with people that will 支払う／賃金 to see him and that 大部分は agree with him."
McConnell distanced himself from Trump's 明言する／公表するd war with the マスコミ, telling reporters after the speech that "I like you guys" and "we need to have people looking at us and raising 堅い questions." He 定評のある Trump would be 井戸／弁護士席 served to トン 負かす／撃墜する some of his tweets, but said: "He's not going to take my advice."
上院 大多数 Leader Mitch McConnell R-Ky., speaks to a 集会 of the Anderson 郡 議会 of 商業 昼食 at the American Legion 地位，任命する 34, Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2017, in Lawrenceburg, Ky. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley)
Geneva ツバメ, of Cincinnati, shouts as the car 含む／封じ込めるing 上院 大多数 Leader Mitch McConnell R-Ky., 運動s by at the American Legion 地位，任命する 34, Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2017, in Lawrenceburg, Ky. 抗議する人s in the hundreds gathered to 発言する／表明する their displeasure with Sen. McConnell and the Trump 行政. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley)
Jody Lambert, of Georgetown, Ky., shouts into her bullhorn during a 抗議する at the American Legion 地位，任命する 34, Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2017, in Lawrenceburg, Ky. 上院 大多数 Leader Mitch McConnell is scheduled to speak at the 地位，任命する 早期に Tuesday afternoon. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley)
Rose Mudd Perkins of Georgetown, Ky., 試みる／企てるs to get a question answered by 上院 大多数 Leader Mitch McConnell R-Ky., during a me eting of the Anderson 郡 議会 of 商業 at the American Legion 地位，任命する 34, Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2017, in Lawrenceburg, Ky. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley)
上院 大多数 Leader Mitch McConnell R-Ky., listens to a question asked by Rose Mudd Perkins, of Georgetown, Ky., during a 会合 of the Anderson 郡 議会 of 商業 at the American Legion 地位，任命する 34, Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2017, in Lawrenceburg, Ky. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley)
上院 大多数 Leader Mitch McConnell R-Ky., speaks to a 集会 of the Anderson 郡 議会 of 商業 昼食 at the American Legion 地位，任命する 34, Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2017, in Lawrenceburg, Ky. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley)
