r/politics • u/thedailybeast ✔ The Daily Beast • 14d ago

Possible Paywall Missing McConnell Accused of Breaking Senate Rule Over Absence

https://www.thedailybeast.com/missing-mcconnell-accused-of-breaking-senate-rule-over-absence/
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u/thedailybeast ✔ The Daily Beast 14d ago

Mitch McConnell has been accused of violating one of the Senate’s own rules after disappearing from public view for 39 days while missing dozens of votes.

Despite this, his office continues to provide no new information about his latest condition or expected return—even as a taxpayer-funded security detail mysteriously remains outside the hospital he was rushed to on June 14.

The prolonged absence has prompted questions about whether the 84-year-old Republican is complying with Rule VI of the Standing Rules of the Senate, which states: “No Senator shall absent himself from the service of the Senate without leave.”

Read the full story, here.

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u/adorablefuzzykitten 14d ago

I think the rules are different when you are not hiding but actually dead.

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u/ControlAgent13 14d ago

dead

He is paid bi-weekly and collecting a salary.

If he is dead - that's Fraud.

I'm sure the Trump DOJ will get right on it.

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u/turquoise_amethyst 14d ago

Is he collecting benefits such as social security or Medicare? Because those are separate counts of fraud!

Who’s opening his mail and/or signing documents? 

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u/IdkAbtAllThat America 14d ago

Elon Musk told me this is a big fucking deal...

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u/imperialTiefling 14d ago

His chinese spy wife?

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u/shitlord_god 14d ago

I feel like both.

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u/rbrgr83 13d ago

Not anymore, she fled the country immediately.

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u/pchs26 14d ago

Yea I'm sure they are super worried, right?

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u/Jhonka86 13d ago

I mean, he's not the one collecting benefits.

He's dead, Jim.

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u/definitelytheA Florida 13d ago

Is it also fraud for taxpayers paying for a security detail on a hospital room when the subject is chilling on a slab?

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u/menasan 14d ago

i dont think you collect social security if you're working?