Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell repeatedly refused to give more detail Wednesday on what exactly was ailing him during a pair of freezing episodes in recent weeks.
Mr. McConnell, Kentucky Republican, was peppered with questions about his health during Senate leadership’s first press conference since returning to Washington this week from a summer recess. He said the recent report from the U.S. Capitol attending physician Dr. Brian P. Monahan had “covered the subject fully.”
Dr. Monahan’s report found that there was no evidence that Mr. McConnell had a seizure disorder, experienced a stroke, or had a movement disorder after extensive testing, which included brain MRI imaging, EEGs and consultation with neurologists for a comprehensive neurological assessment. Mr. McConnell has frozen twice this summer during interactions with the media, and has blamed the episodes on a concussion he received earlier this year. Dr. Monahan’s report cleared Mr. McConnell to return to work, and concluded that lightheadedness from the same concussion, and dehydration, could be behind the temporary freezes.
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