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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., center, joined by Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., left, and Majority Whip John Cornyn, R-Texas, holds a news conference at the Capitol after President Donald Trump overruled congressional Republicans
  • Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell froze up in the middle of a press conference on Wednesday.
  • A similar occurrence happened to him just about a month prior, in Washington, DC.
  • The Capitol physician cleared him to work on Thursday, linking the incidents to a prior concussion.

The Capitol physician released a short note Thursday afternoon clearing Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell to work again after he froze up in the middle of a press conference Wednesday.