FILE -- Nov. 13, 2014: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., flanked by Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., left, and Senate Minority Whip John Cornyn of Texas, emerges from a closed-door meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington, where he was chosen by acclamation of the GOP rank-and-file to be the new Senate majority leader when the new Congress convenes in January.