A viral claim alleging Senate veteran Mitch McConnell voted against or blocked paid and unpaid sick leave measures in 1993, 2015, 2020 and 2022 turns out to be largely accurate. He voted against the 1993 Family and Medical Leave Act, against a 2015 Senate amendment funding seven days of paid sick leave, against a 2020 amendment that would have strengthened and extended COVID-era paid sick leave, and later blocked efforts to extend that benefit past 2020.
The one wrinkle is that McConnell did vote for the temporary Families First Coronavirus Response Act itself in March 2020, which mandated paid sick time through the end of that year — he just voted against the amendment that would have made it more generous and longer-lasting, on the same day.
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