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McConnell was loaded into ambulance on a stretcher, according to eyewitness and new video
A neighbor’s video shows responders loading the 84-year-old senator into an ambulance as his office releases few details about his condition.
- The U.S. Senate returns Monday for a four-week work period featuring defense legislation votes, though Republican Senator Mitch McConnell remains absent with undisclosed health problems since mid-June.
- Emergency dispatchers reported a 'cardiac arrest' and person 'unconscious' at a Washington, D.C. address on June 14; McConnell's office claims he is 'receiving excellent care' and continues to improve.
- Critics including Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear and Representative Marlin Stutzman, R-Indiana, questioned the lack of transparency, with Stutzman saying Republicans 'need to hold our own party accountable.'
- Senate Majority Leader John Thune and strategist Scott Jennings report recent phone conversations with McConnell, yet his absence complicates the Senate Appropriations Committee's narrow 15-14 majority before October 1.
- McConnell has struggled with freezing episodes and falls in recent years, with his current absence drawing comparisons to Representative Thomas Kean, a New Jersey Republican absent for nearly four months.
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The clock is running out on Mitch McConnell
All that the Republicans in the Senate had to do was to keep quiet, and they might have gotten away with whatever it is they’ve been trying to get away with when it comes to Mitch McConnell’s health. No one really noticed or cared that McConnell had been missing for weeks. All his allies had to do was say nothing, and the August 3rd deadline for a special election to replace him might have come and gone quietly. But of course these Republicans a…
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He shoots a video of the shelter shot by a neighbor and published by CNN. Weeks without news " his staff maintains from June 14 the maximum reserve " feed speculations on the real state of the former conservative leader
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