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Mitch McConnell, the longest serving Senate leader in US history, will step down from his post as the Republican Senate minority leader in November.
McConnell announced his decision to resign from Senate leadership on the Senate floor on Wednesday. He will remain in Congress to serve out the rest of his term as the senior senator from Kentucky.
“One of life’s most under-appreciated talents is to know when it’s time to move on to life’s next chapter,” he said. “So I stand before you today . . . to say that this will be my last term as Republican leader of the Senate.”
McConnell, who turned 82 last week, has faced repeated questions about his health and fitness for office after suffering a serious fall last year that sent him to the hospital and resulted in a lengthy absence from Capitol Hill. He then appeared to freeze in two separate incidents speaking to reporters in the halls of Congress and in his home state of Kentucky.
His office later shared a letter from the attending physician for Congress saying the Senate minority leader was “medically clear to continue with his schedule”.
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