Overview
- Sen. Mitch McConnell announced Thursday that he was discharged from a rehabilitation center and will keep up an intensive physical-therapy regimen at his Kentucky home.
- The senator was first hospitalized after a fall at his Washington residence on June 14 that left him briefly unconscious and later developed a mild pneumonia, officials say.
- The Office of the Attending Physician and McConnell’s team say he suffered no fracture, stroke, heart attack, tumor or hemorrhage and has been undergoing multiple daily therapy sessions.
- McConnell has missed roughly 50 roll-call votes during his absence, a gap that Republicans say has blocked committee and floor action on measures such as the Farm Bill.
- Kentucky’s new law that fast-tracks a special election to fill a vacant Senate seat and public demands from Gov. Andy Beshear for clearer medical disclosure have raised political and procedural questions if McConnell cannot return.