GOP Minority Leader speaks at CPAC

Returning the GOP to Conservative Principles
Human Events, March 2, 2007 - Sen. Mitch McConnell’s CPAC remarks

Note: About half way down the linked page Sen. McConnell, Senate Minority Leader, talks about current issues in the House and Senate and the positions Republicans have taken.

[...] But that’s not to say that Republicans in the Senate haven’t accomplished anything in the last two months. I like to point out that the Republican Minority can do two things: we can shape laws and we can block them. And ladies and gentlemen, I can tell you this: thanks to 41 Republicans in the U.S. Senate, not a single bad proposal has made it to the President’s desk. Continued...