WASHINGTON — Sen. Mitch McConnell’s workplace launched a well being replace Monday, saying he’s nonetheless not able to return to in-person work within the Capitol after his June 14 hospitalization.
“I’m nonetheless working arduous to get again to my full schedule of labor within the Senate and in Kentucky, maintaining with intense bodily remedy per my medical doctors’ orders,” McConnell, R-Ky., mentioned in an announcement. “Sadly, which means I received’t have the ability to make it to Fancy Farm, Kentucky this Saturday.”
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McConnell, who mentioned he’s in rehabilitation care after a fall at his residence final month, added that there’s “no place I’d relatively be” than the annual picnic in Kentucky this weekend and “I hate that I’ll miss the enjoyable this 12 months.” He mentioned he’s “wanting ahead to getting again to the Senate and to Kentucky quickly.”
McConnell’s workplace didn’t present a timeline for his return. He has missed the final 38 votes on the Senate flooring, in keeping with an NBC Information overview. The chamber is scheduled to be in session for the following two weeks earlier than summer time recess.
His workplace launched a brand new photograph of him together with his spouse, Elaine Chao.
McConnell’s workplace additionally launched an announcement from the Workplace of the Attending Doctor, saying that the senator “continues his restoration from a fall at residence in June,” including: “He isn’t but medically cleared to go away the rehab facility and return to the workplace.”
“Since his discharge from hospital care, he has maintained a strenuous course of bodily remedy and rehabilitation, together with a number of classes a day designed to rebuild power and cut back the danger of future falls,” the OAP assertion learn.
It’s the first replace from McConnell’s staff since July 12, when he first disclosed the small print of what led to his hospitalization. He mentioned he suffered a fall and was “briefly unconscious,” however by no means had a coronary heart assault or stroke, nor any tumors or hemorrhages.
McConnell is scheduled to retire when his time period expires on the finish of this Congress, as he isn’t operating for re-election in November.
