Analysis: For senators’ health updates, full transparency is case by case
But no custom exists for members of Congress, not even the highest-ranking members of leadership. Instead, lawmakers suffering from various ailments will offer variations of often hopeful, but quite vague, statements about their prognosis.
This issue drew intense political attention last year during the Pennsylvania Senate campaign, after John Fetterman , then a candidate, suffered a stroke and took more than two months off the campaign trail amid Republican accusations he was not healthy enough for the job. That issue came up again last month when now-Sen. Fetterman faced a serious enough bout with depression, common after a stroke, that he checked into inpatient care.
“I’ve texted but I, you know, I think that report is something that should come from [McConnell’s] staff,” Senate Minority Whip John Thune told reporters Monday evening, leaving a leadership meeting in McConnell’s office that he ran. To Casey, who recently endured his own surgery to battle prostate cancer, that’s perfectly fine. That’s exactly how he has approached dealing with Fetterman since the junior senator entered Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Feb. 16.
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