Monahan covered the subject fully,” Mr. McConnell said Wednesday, referring to a letter his office released from Dr. Brian P. Monahan, the attending physician of Congress.
They cast doubt on Dr. Monahan’s assessment that the incidents were merely part of a normal recovery from a concussion Mr. McConnell had sustained in March after falling at a Washington hotel.
But on Wednesday, after three consecutive questions about his health, Mr. McConnell abruptly ended the news conference.
Famously tight-lipped and difficult to read even in his prime, Mr. McConnell offered his colleagues little more detail in the semi-privacy of the weekly Senate Republican lunch, the first time G.O.P.
Mr. McConnell told them that he had only frozen up twice, and simply had the misfortune of doing it both times on camera.
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