For Mitch McConnell and Congress, health transparency is a choice, not a requirement

(NPR) It has been nearly a month since Sen. Mitch McConnell was hospitalized. The retiring Kentucky Republican has not been seen in public since, and his office has offered few details about why he was admitted or when he might return.

This is not the first time this year a member of Congress has been absent for weeks with little explanation, recharging a perennial debate on Capitol Hill over what lawmakers and others in positions of power owe the public when it comes to transparency about their health or fitness for office.
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A spokesman for McConnell's successor, Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., said the two men "had a lengthy and substantive conversation that covered a variety of topics, including national security."

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