Daily News | Sen. John Fetterman to return to the Senate tonight after six-week hospitalization
Sen. John Fetterman is to return to the Senate this 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.A U.S. senator openly seeking treatment for mental health is rare. So is staying 44 days in a Pa. hospital for depression.
He’ll also likely face a crush of new media attention. He did a sit-down interview with CBS’s Jane Pauley last month but otherwise hasn’t talked to reporters since shortly after he was elected in November.
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