Kentucky Largest Companies 2016 Total Audited US GAAP Earnings Decrease Sharply By 22% From 2015 Under Kentucky US Senators Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul

From a review of the Google Finance Website and of company financial statements in the US SEC Website, I found 11 Companies headquartered in the US State of Kentucky with Stock Market Capitalizations either very late in 2016 or very early in 2017 of more than $1 Bil and which also have filed their fiscal year 2016 annual financial statements with the SEC.  Traditional Highly Regulated Utilities were excluded.
 
Below here are the reported Audited US GAAP Earnings (Losses) From Continuing Operations of each of these 11 Kentucky Companies for all of the fiscal years from 2007 through 2016 where the earnings numbers were reported and also where they were prepared in a fairly consistent manner with those in the most recent years:

				2016	2015	2014	2013	2012	2011	2010	2009	2008	2007
			Most	Audited	Audited	Audited	Audited	Audited	Audited	Audited	Audited	Audited	Audited
			Recent	Net	Net	Net	Net	Net	Net	Net	Net	Net	Net
Kentucky Companies	City	State	2016	Income	Income	Income	Income	Income	Income	Income	Income	Income	Income
Market Caps Above $1 Bil	HQs	HQs	FYE	(Loss)	(Loss)	(Loss)	(Loss)	(Loss)	(Loss)	(Loss)	(Loss)	(Loss)	(Loss)
				$ mils	$ mils	$ mils	$ mils	$ mils	$ mils	$ mils	$ mils	$ mils	$ mils
Yum! Brands	Louisville	KY	Dec16	994	936	1,006	922	884
Brown Forman	Louisville	KY	Apr17	669	1,067	684	659	591	513	572	449	435	440
Humana	Louisville	KY	Dec16	614	1,276	1,147	1,231	1,222	1,419	1,099	1,040	647	834
Valvoline	Lexington	KY	Sep16	273	196	173	246	114
Tempur Sealy Intl	Lexington	KY	Dec16	197	75	110	79	107	220	157	85	59	141
Texas Roadhouse Inc	Louisville	KY	Dec16	121	101	91	84	74	66	61	49	39	40
Papa John's Intl Inc	Louisville	KY	Dec16	109	82	78	73	66	58	56	61	39	34
Churchill Downs	Louisville	KY	Dec16	108	65	46	55	58	61	20	18	29	17
Stock Yards Bancorp Inc	Louisville	KY	Dec16	41	37	35	27	26	24	23	16	22	24
Ashland Global Holdings	Covington	KY	Sep16	3	191	72	553	14	3	7	(240)	87	257
General Cable Corp	Highland Heights	KY	Dec16	(94)	(136)	(643)	(10)	10	54	77	65	188	198
Total all 11				3,035	3,890	2,799	3,919	3,166	2,418	2,072	1,543	1,545	1,985
2016 Total Earnings % Below 2015				-22%