Mitch McConnell, who was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1984, tripped and fell at a Washington hotel dinner Wednesday night and was hospitalized with a concussion.
US Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell has been released from the hospital and will undergo treatment at a rehabilitation center after an accident at a Washington hotel last week, his spokesman said Monday.
The 81-year-old McConnell’s recovery from the concussion he suffered is going well, the statement said, noting that he also suffered a small rib fracture. Due to the treatment that will follow, he will be absent from today’s Senate meeting.
Mitch McConnell, who was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1984, tripped and fell at a dinner Wednesday night at a Washington hotel and was hospitalized with a concussion. A former McConnell aide said Friday that the Senate Republican leader was looking forward to returning to office.
The crash comes at a time when Democrats (who hold the majority in the Senate) and Republicans (who hold the majority in the House of Representatives) are engaged in a bra-de-fer over raising the national debt ceiling by $31.4 trillion today, aiming to avoid bankruptcy.
Source :Skai
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