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Mitch McConnell using a wheelchair after falling down stairs at the Capitol [View all]
(NBC News) WASHINGTON — Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., is "fine," his office said Wednesday after he was seen using a wheelchair following a fall at the Capitol.
“Senator McConnell is fine. The lingering effects of polio in his left leg will not disrupt his regular schedule of work," a McConnell spokesman said in a statement. McConnell, 82, had polio as a child.
The spokesman added that McConnell is using a wheelchair “purely as a precautionary measure.”
Reporters saw McConnell fall down while he was walking down a small set of stairs leaving the Senate chamber on his way to a Republican caucus lunch.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/mitch-mcconnell-using-wheelchair-falling-stairs-capitol-rcna190840
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