Republican Senator Mitch McConnell was hospitalized after falling

The Republican leader of the Senate, Mitch McConnellbeen hospitalized after dropping into a local hotel on Wednesday night, a spokesperson for the senator reported.

Senator from Kentucky, 81, was attending a private dinner in Washington when he tripped. He was admitted to hospital for treatment, spokesman Doug Andres said.

McConnell’s office did not provide additional details about his condition or the length of his absence from the Senate.

In 2019, the leader of the Republican Party tripped and fell at his Kentucky home, breaking his shoulder. At that time, he underwent surgery to repair his broken shoulder. The Senate had just started its summer vacation, and he worked from home for a few weeks while he recovered.

McConnell, first elected in 1984became the longest-serving Senate leader when the new Congress convened in January, breaking the previous record of 16 years.

McConnell, taciturn, is usually reluctant to talk about his private life. However, at the onset of the COVID-19 crisis, he opened up about his childhood experience fighting polio. He described how his mum had insisted he not get up when he was little and worked with him on a regimen of physiotherapy. adulthood acknowledged some difficulty climbing stairs.

The Senate, whose median age is 65, was recently deprived of several members due to illness.

The senator John Fettermann, a 53-year-old Pennsylvania Democrat who suffered a stroke while campaigning last year, was due to be out for a few weeks while receiving treatment for clinical depression. and the senator Diane Feinsteinan 89-year-old Democrat from California, said last week that she had been hospitalized for treatment for shingles.

The absentee Democrats challenged Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D.N.Y., who already holds a slim majority of 51 to 49 votes.

Republicans, as a minority party, had an easier time with intermittent absences. It’s unclear whether McConnell will be out on Thursday and whether that would affect the voting schedule.. South Dakota Senator John Thune is the second Republican in the Senate.

(With AP information)

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