LOUISVILLE - U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell made the following statement Sunday regarding the President’s announcement to Katie Couric that he plans to invite members of Congress to the White House for a discussion on health care reform:

Last Tuesday's filing deadline for this year's Kentucky elections came amid a momentous week and a day in American politics. The events influenced the filings and will certainly influence the election, almost surely to Republicans' benefit. But there will be exceptions, and at least one could be in Kentucky.

Editor's note: Sen. Mitch McConnell, a Republican from Kentucky, is minority leader of the U.S. Senate.

Washington (CNN) -- When the president took office last January, he vowed to tackle the economic crisis head on. Yet over the past year, Americans have seen their economic situation deteriorate even further.

-- A column by Congressman Geoff Davis

Despite President Barack Obama’s inaugural promise to create jobs and contain unemployment through passage of a stimulus package that would “provide an immediate jolt” to our economy, Kentuckians have been struggling with an unemployment rate above ten percent since May 2009. Since the Democrat Majority’s stimulus legislation was signed into law almost one year ago, 3.5 million Americans have lost their jobs. More than six million jobs have been lost since Democrats took control of Congress in January of 2007.
 

FRANKFORT, Ky. — Tuesday's filing deadline for this year's primaries passed without any last-minute drama — but with plenty of candidates seeking office in what appears to be the most active election cycle in recent memory.