WASHINGTON – (TNS) Kentucky’s longtime Sen. Mitch McConnell wants his neighbors to know representatives in Washington are going to ensure federal resources make it to the site of a fatal plane crash in his hometown of Louisville.

At least 12 people are dead and more injured when a cargo plane crashed Tuesday evening at the Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport while departing for Hawaii.

On the Senate floor Nov. 5, less than 24 hours after the crash, McConnell told his colleagues he spoke to Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg Wednesday and is in close contact with the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board.

The Senate was meeting Wednesday to cast a vote that didn’t happen on ending what’s now the longest government shutdown in U.S. history.

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