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Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., speaks to reporters following a closed-door policy meeting, at the Capitol in Washington, Feb. 28, 2023. McConnell will be back at work in the Capitol on Monday, April 17, almost six weeks after a fall at a Washington-area hotel and undergoing extended treatment for a concussion. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

GOP leader McConnell returning to Senate after head injury

By Mary Clare Jalonick - Associated Press

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.,speaks during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Feb. 14, 2023. McConnell says he opposes repeal of the 2002 and 1991 authorizations of force against Iraq, arguing that that authority "bears directly on the threats we face today in Iraq and Syria from Iran-backed terrorists." (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

McConnell to return to Senate Monday amid retirement rumors

By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., speaks to reporters following a closed-door policy meeting, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, March 7, 2023. McConnell was critical of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's decision to unleash a trove of Jan. 6 Capitol attack footage to Fox News' Tucker Carlson. The conservative commentator is working to reverse the narrative of the attack that had played out for the world to see into one more favorable to Donald Trump. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

McConnell urges lawmakers to keep Iraq war powers in wake of strikes by Iranian-backed militias

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., speaks to reporters following a closed-door policy meeting, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023. McConnell said Saturday, March 25, that he has been released from the rehabilitation facility where he had physical therapy for a concussion caused by a fall earlier this month. The 81-year-old Kentucky Republican said in a statement released by his office that he will work from home for the next few days. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

McConnell released from inpatient physical therapy

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Tucker Carlson, left, and former President Donald Trump, right, react during the final round of the Bedminster Invitational LIV Golf tournament in Bedminster, N.J., July 31, 2022. A defamation lawsuit against Fox News is revealing blunt behind-the-scenes opinions by its top figures about Donald Trump, including a Tucker Carlson text message where he said “I hate him passionately.” Carlson's private conversation was revealed in court papers at virtually the same time as the former president was hailing the Fox News host on social media for a “great job” for using U.S. Capitol security video to produce a false narrative of the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Court records show political pressure behind Fox programming

By Nicholas Riccardi and David Bauder

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., discusses NATO expansion and other issues during an Associated Press interview in his office at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2022. McConnell, 81, has been hospitalized after tripping and falling at a hotel as he was attending a private dinner at a Washington hotel Wednesday night, March 8, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Top Democrats wish Mitch McConnell a speedy recovery after fall

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., speaks to reporters following a closed-door policy meeting, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, March 7, 2023. McConnell was critical of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's decision to unleash a trove of Jan. 6 Capitol attack footage to Fox News' Tucker Carlson. The conservative commentator is working to reverse the narrative of the attack that had played out for the world to see into one more favorable to Donald Trump. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell hospitalized after fall, spokesman says

By Mary Clare Jalonick and Lisa Mascaro - Associated Press

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., says that Senate Republicans have no agenda to consider cuts or reforms to Medicare or Social Security, as he pushes back against a plan by Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

McConnell lampoons Biden’s ‘radical’ 401(k) rule as GOP seeks to scuttle new ESG provision

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., speaks to reporters during a news conference following the Republican policy luncheon meeting on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) ** FILE **

Mitch McConnell distances GOP from Rick Scott’s ‘sunset’ plan in continuing friction

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., speaks to reporters during a news conference following the Republican policy luncheon meeting on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Mitch McConnell: China made a ‘mockery of our airspace’ with spy balloon

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., speaks to reporters during a news conference following the Republican policy luncheon meeting on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) ** FILE **

Payback? McConnell foes Rick Scott, Mike Lee booted from Senate commerce committee

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., with Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., and Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., left, speaks to reporters during a news conference following the Republican policy luncheon meeting on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

McConnell says GOP’s spending cuts ‘reasonable,’ House must lead debt-ceiling talks with Biden

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Sen. Pete Ricketts, R-Neb., smiles as Vice President Kamala Harris arrives, Monday, Jan. 23, 2023, for his ceremonial swearing-in on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Pete Ricketts sworn in as U.S. senator from Nebraska, replacing Ben Sasse

By Mary Clare Jalonick - Associated Press

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., looks to President Joe Biden after Biden arrived at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport in Hebron, Ky., Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2023. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Biden-McConnell: Personally mismatched, professionally bound

By Seung Min Kim - Associated Press

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., speaks under the Clay Wade Bailey Bridge, Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2023, in Covington, Ky. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

McConnell: Funding to support school safety, mental health

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Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., speaks to reporters following a closed-door policy meeting, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **

Senate GOP critics give McConnell a pass for appearing with Biden to promote infrastructure

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden walks on the South Lawn of the White House after stepping off Marine One, Jan. 2, 2023, in Washington. Biden will visit a notoriously dilapidated bridge connecting Ohio and Kentucky on Wednesday to promote his administration's infrastructure law. The Brent Spence Bridge has long been a symbol of the nation's aging infrastructure system, with presidents of both parties vowing to fix it. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Biden heads to Kentucky to highlight cash for aging bridge

By Seung Min Kim - Associated Press

Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., arrives as lawmakers rush to complete passage of a spending bill to fund the government before a midnight Friday deadline or face the prospect of a partial government shutdown going into the Christmas holiday, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 22, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

‘Stop caving’: Rick Scott takes conflict with Mitch McConnell to GOP grassroots with TV ad

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., walks to his office as he talks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2023. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

McConnell breaks record to become longest-serving Senate leader

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer, of New York, and Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, of Kentucky, left rear, enjoy a brief bipartisan moment when they both arrived at the same time to speak to reporters about progress on the infrastructure bill, at the Capitol in Washington, Aug. 3, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Trump blasts ‘Old Crow’ McConnell for making deal with Democrats on spending bill

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times