It is ridiculous that we allow extended absences with no accountability. McConnell should have been retired and out of Congress years ago, and maybe we need age limits or cognitive tests after a certain age.
A representative can’t represent if they are not able to attend sessions. Remember Dianne Feinstein? She was mentally incapable, and her staff told her what to do. That is not representation. It is time for age limits and term limits because we need fresh meat once in a while to keep the old guard in place. We have too many lifers in Congress unwilling to give up power. All IMO.
“The suggestion comes after New Jersey GOP Rep. Tom Kean Jr., and Kentucky Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell disappeared from the halls of Congress unexpectedly. Kean later revealed that he was absent because of depression, while McConnell was hospitalized after a fall and has since been battling pneumonia.
The Democratic lawmaker questioned in a comment to Fox News whether McConnell’s prolonged absence is “legal at this point,” now that he has been missing from the upper chamber for a month. He was first hospitalized on June 14.
“How is everyone pretending this is normal?” Ocasio-Cortez said. “This is not normal. At all. How is it that we have sitting elected members of Congress going missing for months at a time?”