He is expected to join a roll call vote to advance a nominee for deputy under secretary of defense, Radha Iyengar Plumb, to a confirmation vote.
is to return to the Senate Monday evening for the first time since mid-February, after a six-week hospitalization for clinical depression.
Fetterman hasn’t voted in the chamber, where Democrats have a razor-thin majority, since Feb. 15. Few major legislative decisions, however, have come before the Senate in the weeks he was away. Senators have spent almost all their time on confirmation votes, mostly on noncontroversial nominees who have enough support to advance even without Fetterman.
Many of Fetterman’s colleagues have applauded his public acknowledgment that he was suffering from depression as a courageous disclosure about an often-stigmatized topic. When he walks into the Senate on Monday, it will be the first time many will greet him in person since he went on leave.
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