WASHINGTON, Sept. 7 (Sen.) -- Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, issued the following news release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) delivered the following remarks today on the Senate floor regarding the U.S. defense industrial base: "The loudest critics of American assistance to Ukraine tend to rest their case of three dubious claims. "First, that somehow our support for Ukraine is a distraction from China - when in fact there are many  more