Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said Wednesday that he will to try to convince one of the female members of the Senate Republican conference to join the Judiciary Committee in the next Congress.
McConnell told reporters on Wednesday that he hopes to do a better job recruiting female candidates for the Senate GOP.
“It’s been a frustration,” McConnell said following electoral gains by the Senate GOP on Tuesday night.
“I’m going to be trying to convince one of our women, for example, to go on the Judiciary Committee. Something I’ve tried and failed [to do] the last couple of congresses.”
The Kentucky Republican noted that Senator-elect Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., won Tuesday night and that he is hopeful Rep. Martha McSally, R-Ariz., will emerge victorious in Arizona.
“We’ve had plenty of women candidates. A lot of them have not won,” he said. “Yeah, we need to do a better job of recruiting women candidates and getting them elected.”
The lack of a female GOP senator on the Judiciary Committee was noticeable during the hearings of Judge Brett Kavanaugh and testimony of Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, who accused him of sexual assaulting her in the early 1980s. Instead of having the all-male panel quiz Ford, they hired an outside questioner.
