WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell was “fine” and recovering after suffering a fall at the U.S. Capitol, Republican Senator John Thune told reporters on Tuesday.
McConnell, 82, is due to step down as the party’s leader in the chamber next year, but plans to serve out the remaining two years of his term in office as a senator despite a series of health scares last year that included two instances of freezing up in public while speaking.
“He is fine, he’s in his office,” said Thune, who will succeed McConnell as the party’s leader when it takes a 53-47 Senate majority next year.
McConnell was away from the Senate for weeks in 2023 after tripping at a Washington dinner, resulting in a hospital stay for treatment of a concussion and minor rib fracture. Twice later that year he froze up in public while speaking.
McConnell served as Senate majority leader from 2015 to 2021 and as Senate minority leader since then.
(Reporting by David Morgan and Katharine Jackson, Editing by Scott Malone)
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