The incident mirrored another occasion when McConnell, the Senate minority leader, abruptly stopped speaking last month.
McConnell took questions from reporters in Covington, Ky., after talking with a local group there. At one point, he asked a reporter to clarify the question.
McConnell chuckled and said, “Oh, that’s, uhh —” Then he paused for about seven seconds before an aide walked to his side and asked him if he had heard the question.at a private dinner at a Washington hotel in early March. The Kentucky Republican was absent from the Senate for nearly six weeks as he recovered from his injuries. He returned to the Senate in April.
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