BREAKING: Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., returned to the Senate on Monday after a more than three-month absence. He said his recovery after a fall in June had been “a long and frustrating process” that had been complicated by “lingering effects of childhood polio.” ↧ Mitch McConnell returns to the Senate after three-month absence The Kentucky Republican was hospitalized in June after a fall. “Time to get back to work to finish the job for this Congress,” he said to reporters Monday.