MCCONNELL ON 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF 9/11 ATTACKS

WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 -- Sen. Mitch McConnell issued the following press release:

U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) released the following statement today on the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the United States:

"Today, I remember the clouds of dust that filled clear blue skies twenty-five years ago, stealing away fathers, mothers, sons, daughters, brothers, sisters, friends and colleagues. And I remember the faraway battlefields that claimed thousands more in the years that followed.

"My deepest sympathies today are with those Americans for whom the grief of September 11th is not abstract but personal and unrelenting. Time will continue to ease our nation's shared pain, but it will never fill empty seats at family ...