Posted on 10/13/2017 2:42:47 PM PDT by cotton1706
The Mississippi senator has been recovering the past several weeks from a urological procedure. And concern is growing on and off Capitol Hill over whether the 79-year-old lawmaker will return to work on Monday when the Senate comes back from recess — not to mention how long he'll be able to continue leading a high-profile committee or even remain in the Senate.
Multiple sources close to the senator said his staff and allies have received limited information from his family about his health status, further fueling questions about his future.
Cochran's office maintains that the Mississippi Republican will return next week as planned, and Senate Republican aides said they expect him back as well. But several K Street sources and Cochran allies said he's unlikely to be back next week. Multiple sources said there's increasing worry his absence could stretch through the end of the year.
Cochran is slated to oversee an Appropriations Committee markup on Thursday.
Cochran missed the last two weeks that the Senate was in session. Any further absence would cause major problems for Senate Republicans.
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His last election was dirty politics in the extreme. I wish him a good recovery. I also wish he never becomes a senator again. He is dirty and an integral part of the ruling elite be they Republican or Democrat. They are all mostly dirty!
Once elected most are not our voices in Congress but become our rulers. Most are dirty in the extreme.
The massive fraud in the runoff should’ve had the GOP Senate majority deny Cochran being seated in Jan 2015.
The other Senator from Mississippi who is up in 2018 might want the governor to appoint McDaniel to avoid being primaryed by him.
You know who runs the show in cases like this, the aides. The unelected unaccountable staffers in D.C. are running the country for most of these feeble types. WE need more Charles Grassleys of a certain age but better than most young pretty faces. That is the problem.
Forget term limits, there should be AGE limits to office holders.
The Cheap Labor Express spared no expense and even used Democrats to save this guy from being taken out in the last primary.
Do Senators have a long term care plan? /sarc
But it was paid for by McConnell and that fat faced Rinopunk Haley Barbour. My Gawd how did we get these swamp creatures.
But it was paid for by McConnell and that fat faced Rinopunk Haley Barbour. My Gawd how did we get these swamp creatures.
Another Senator clinging to power.
Don’t forget that the words “senator” and “senile” come from the same Latin root.
CC
Exactly, it is always serious, especially at that age!
When that much power and money are at stake, it attracts the worst sorts.
*cough* DebbieDingle *cough*
CC
yes. And they want politicians that will stay bought.
The damn useless Senate is a pre- hospice country club for elected geezer elites. Seems like they wish to exit in the stiff horizontal position.
The US Senate is a PREPOSTEROUS ABOMINATION, 100 insane petty tyrants conspiring to steal everything not nailed down and stay in power until their dying day.
The Republic died in 1865, the 17th Amendment ensured the States would NEVER bring it back.
Ms ping
The massive fraud in the runoff should’ve had the GOP Senate majority deny Cochran being seated in Jan 2015.
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It was the Republican National Senatorial Campaign committee that did the massive fraud.
They wanted to keep that amnesty vote available.
““Simple prostate removal”. I take it you still have yours?”
You dont want one ....belieeeeeve me!
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