McConnell a Kentucky Republican stopped speaking in the middle of remarks at his regularly scheduled weekly news conference on Capitol Hill . After a second pause his colleagues crowded around to see if he was OK and asked him how he felt . Sen. John Barrasso of Wyoming was seen gripping McConnells arm and whispered to him Hey Mitch anything else you want to say Or should we just go back to your office? He said nothing and was led away from the press conference and towards his office by an aide . He returned to the news conference a few minutes later . McConnell has faced questions over his health after suffering a concussion and broken ribs from a fall he endured earlier this year . He was hospitalized and forced to go to rehab for several weeks before returning to the Senate in the spring . He has been hospitalized and was forced to went to rehab in the past several weeks for several months . He suffered from a concussion. He was hospitalised for several . weeks before going to rehab and was released from rehab for three months earlier this month after suffering from a broken ribs and a concussion in a fall earlier this . year . McConnell said he is ‘not feeling well enough enough to continue to be back in the Senate . to continue working for a month-to-date with his job . He said he was not feeling good enough to get back to work for a week-long meeting with reporters and said he did not feel ill enough to go back for a long time. He is not looking well enough to work again. He has not been in good health again. It has been a month. He said that he is not working again.’s job.‘I don’t’ to be out of work again’. He’
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