The Senate is set for an uncertain and busy return from its August recess Tuesday, with Mitch McConnell's health in question and a stocked to-do list looming.
He stayed to answer another question last week, while in July he eventually returned to answer more questions from the press after he was helped away.McConnell's office attributed the latest freeze to lightheadedness and released a letter Thursday from Dr. Brian P. Monahan, the Capitol attending physician, who said he had consulted with McConnell and McConnell's neurology team and that the Republican leader is medically clear to continue with his schedule."...
"Mitch is sharp, and he is shrewd. He understands what needs to be done," South Dakota Sen. Mike Rounds said Sunday on CNN. "I will leave it up to him as to how he wants to discuss that with the American public. But there's no doubt in my mind that he is perfectly capable of continuing on at this stage of the game."
"At what point do they get it's time to leave?" Haley said on CBS News. "They need to let a younger generation take over. We want to go and start working for our kids to make sure we have a strong national security, to make sure we have a stronger economic policy, to make sure that America is safe."Fellow GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy said Friday that he thought it would be "most prudent if he stepped aside.
Prior to the August recess, senators marked up legislation that largely mirrors the budget caps agreed to by Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., earlier this year. However, the GOP-controlled House pushed legislation far beneath those levels.
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