McConnell Returns To Senate Six Weeks After Injury

The Associated Press reports:

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell was back at work in the U.S. Capitol on Monday, almost six weeks after a fall at a Washington-area hotel and extended treatment for a concussion. The longtime Kentucky senator, 81, has been recovering at home since he was released from a rehabilitation facility March 25.

McConnell arrived at the Capitol early Monday and is expected to work a full schedule in the Senate this week. “I’m very happy to be back,” McConnell said. “There’s important business for Congress to tackle.” And he joked, “Suffice it to say, this wasn’t the first time that being hard-headed has served me very well.”

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