Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., returned to the Senate on Monday and cast his vote after a more than three-month absence.
\n\n“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.
\n\nHe later voted to advance the nomination of Matthew Byrne for U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of Ohio.
\n\nMcConnell said his recovery had been “a long and frustrating process,” adding that it had been complicated by “lingering effects of childhood polio.”
\n\n“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 said in his statement.
\n\nMcConnell has been missing from the Senate since mid-June, when he fell at home and was “briefly unconscious,” according to a statement in July.
\n\n“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…
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