'This is not normal': AOC unloads on McConnell's prolonged absence
Mitch McConnell's disclosure of new details about the medical issues that have kept him away from the Senate has sparked fresh scrutiny on Capitol Hill, with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., questioning whether his prolonged absence is "legal at this point" even as Republicans insist he'll return when the Senate needs him."How is everyone pretending this is normal?" Ocasio-Cortez said to Fox News Digital.
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Mitch McConnell's disclosure of new details about the medical issues that have kept him away from the Senate has sparked fresh scrutiny on Capitol Hill, with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., questioning whether his prolonged absence is "legal at this point" even as Republicans insist he'll return when the Senate needs him."How is everyone pretending this is normal?" Ocasio-Cortez said to Fox News Digital. At all.""How is it that we have sitting elected members of Congress going missing for months at a time?"MITCH MCCONNELL BREAKS SILENCE ON MYSTERY HOSPITALIZATION AFTER GRAHAM'S DEATHThe Kentucky senator broke his silence on his previously undisclosed medical conditions that have kept him absent from the Senate since he was first hospitalized on June 14. He posted to social media claiming that his childhood fight with polio contributed to the fall that left him "briefly unconscious" and hospitalized last month, and then was hit with a "mild case of pneumonia" in the midst of his recovery."Leader McConnell is tough as nails," Sen.
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- Mitch McConnell's disclosure of new details about the medical issues that have kept him away from the Senate has sparked fresh scrutiny on Capitol Hill, with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., questioning whether his prolonged absence is "legal at this point" even as Republicans insist he'll return when the Senate needs him."How is everyone pretending this is normal?" Ocasio-Cortez said to Fox News Digital.
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'This is not normal': AOC unloads on McConnell's prolonged absence
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