Mitch McConnell returns to the Senate after three-month absence

Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., returned to the Senate on Monday after a more than three-month absence.

“Today, I’ll cast my first Senate vote since I took a bad fall back in June. I’m really looking forward to being back on the Senate floor and seeing my colleagues,” McConnell wrote in a statement Monday.

He added that his recovery had been “a long and frustrating process,” saying it had been complicated by “lingering effects of childhood polio.”

“I’m still not quite back to 100%, but I’ve assured Leader Thune that, as I continue with physical therapy on the advice of my doctors, I will do my best to be present for tough votes when our Conference needs me,” McConnell added.

McConnell has been missing from the Senate since mid-June, when he fell at home and was “briefly unconscious,” according to a statement in July.

“I must admit, after two years, two decades after dodging your questions, I wasn’t sure how many of you would be here today,” McConnell joked to reporters as he sat in a wheelchair Monday. “So I’m glad to see you. Time to get back to work to finish the job for this Congress. I’m here to work…

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