Former Republican Senate leaders Bob Dole, Kan., and Trent Lott, Miss., co-authored an op-ed in today’s Wall Street Journal praising current Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. Dole and Lott write that they “have both been impressed with Sen. McConnell’s leadership in these first few months of the 114th Congress…”

They list McConnell’s leadership in getting 30 bipartisan bills passed in the Senate, including trade-promotion authority legislation, a bill to approve the Keystone XL pipeline, as well as legislation on Iran, Medicare and appropriations. They praise McConnell’s efforts to pass the Senate’s first budget in years and laud him for getting the Senate “functioning properly” again.