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US Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell tripped and fell on Wednesday at a hotel and was hospitalized, the senator’s spokesman said.
McConnell, 81, was attending a private dinner at a local hotel when he stumbled. He was admitted to a hospital for treatment, spokesman Doug Andres said.
In 2019, the Senate Minority Leader from Kentucky, a childhood polio survivor, tripped and fell at his home in Kentucky, breaking his shoulder. At that time, he underwent surgery to repair a fracture in his shoulder.
The Senate had just started its summer break and he was working at home for a few weeks while he recovered. The taciturn McConnell is often reluctant to discuss his personal life.
Survivor of childhood polio
But at the onset of the COVID-19 crisis, he opened up about his childhood experience fighting polio. He described how his mother insisted that he remain a child and worked with him through a prescribed physical therapy regime. He has admitted some difficulties in adults climbing stairs.
First elected in 1984, McConnell in January became the longest-serving Senate leader when the new Congress convened, breaking the previous record of 16 years.
The Senate, whose average age is 65, has recently been without several members due to illness. Office of Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., 90, said she was hospitalized last week to be treated for shingles.
Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., 53, who suffered a stroke during the campaign last year, is expected to remain out for several weeks as he receives treatment for clinical depression.
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