Senator Mitch McConnell returned to the US Senate on Monday, 14 September, casting his first vote since 11 June after a 14 June fall at his Washington home left him briefly unconscious and hospitalised.
The 84-year-old Kentucky Republican, wheeled onto the floor in a wheelchair, helped advance the cloture motion on the nomination of Matthew R. Byrne to a federal judgeship in Ohio, ending a 92-day absence that drew intense scrutiny.
