Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell fractured his shoulder in a fall at his home on Sunday in Louisville, Kentucky, and was hospitalized for a short time, according to a news release.
“This morning, Leader McConnell tripped at home on his outside patio and suffered a fractured shoulder. He has been treated, released, and is working from home in Louisville,” his spokesman David Popp said in a statement.
The statement also said that McConnell had reached out to Republican Sens. John Cornyn of Texas and Rob Portman of Ohio to “express his deepest sympathies for the people of El Paso and Dayton and discuss the senseless tragedies of this weekend.”
The 77-year-old McConnell has had trouble with falling in the past, going back to his struggles with polio in his childhood.
McConnell attended an annual political event in Fancy Farm, Kentucky, on Saturday. The Senate is set to begin a five-week recess next week.
