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Watch: McConnell gets choked up saying goodbye to longtime staffer Stew

By Thomas McKinless

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Majority Leader Mitch McConnell gave a heartfelt tribute to his longtime deputy chief of staff Don Stewart, known on the Hill simply as Stew. Stewart is leaving McConnell’s office this week for a new role at Association of Global Automakers. “There’s Cher, there was Prince, there’s Madonna, and there is Stew,” McConnell said Thursday. “Everybody knows Stew.”

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