Mitch McConnell returns to Senate after three-month health absence
The 84-year-old Kentucky Republican is back in Washington after a fall, hospitalization, pneumonia and weeks of rehabilitation kept him away from the Senate.
TL;DR
- Senator Mitch McConnell returned to the Capitol on Monday after a 92-day absence.
- His absence followed a fall in June that led to hospitalization and recovery from pneumonia.
- McConnell assured Senate Majority Leader John Thune he will be present for important votes.
- He arrived in a wheelchair, acknowledging his recovery is ongoing and complicated by effects of childhood polio.
- McConnell is serving the final months of his Senate career, which ends in January.