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Washington — Senate GOP leaders said Tuesday they spoke with Sen. Mitch McConnell amid a weekslong hospitalization that has sparked increasing speculation astir his health.
A spokesperson for Senate Majority Leader John Thune said the South Dakota Republican and McConnell spoke connected Monday by telephone and "had a lengthy and substantive speech that covered a assortment of topics, including nationalist security." And the No. 2 Republican, Sen. John Barrasso of Wyoming, spoke to McConnell by telephone Tuesday day for astir 20 minutes, a spokeswoman said.
"Senator McConnell was afloat engaged and is anxious to get backmost to the Senate," Barrasso spokeswoman Kate Noyes said successful a statement.
The 84-year-old Kentucky Republican has been hospitalized since June 14, his bureau said. On the aforesaid day, exigency aesculapian unit responded to an unconscious idiosyncratic astatine McConnell's home, according to a nationalist EMS dispatch call reviewed by CBS News past week.
During the call, a dispatcher called successful a "cardiac arrest" and a medic said determination was "CPR successful progress" astatine McConnell's address. The dispatcher besides said an idiosyncratic was "unconscious." The senator's sanction is not mentioned during the EMS call, and CBS News has not confirmed the individuality of the unconscious person.
McConnell's unit has neither confirmed that the dispatch telephone was astir the legislator nor provided much accusation astir wherefore helium was admitted to the hospital.
His bureau past issued a connection connected July 2 that said the legislator was still hospitalized.
"Senator McConnell appreciates the outpouring of enactment he's receiving portion helium continues his betterment successful the hospital," the connection said. "The Senator continues to improve, and is moving intimately with his unit connected Kentucky and Senate matters portion the Senate is retired of session."
Thune said past period that helium had spoken to McConnell pursuing his hospitalization. On June 15, helium told reporters that McConnell "sounded good" and "wants to beryllium back." The adjacent day, Thune told Fox News that McConnell "was successful bully spirits." He also said McConnell indicated that "he'd beryllium backmost soon."
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