Mitch McConnell

Mitch McConnell, the former Senate Majority Leader, was unconscious at his home in Washington, D.C., last month after a possible heart attack.

Per an emergency dispatch recording, McConnell was found unconscious June 14 and transported to a local hospital in an Advanced Life Support ambulance, according to the New York Post and Punchbowl News.

McConnell’s office has not commented on the recording.

A representative for McConnell confirmed to CBS News last month the senator was admitted to a hospital and was “receiving excellent care,” and that a week later he was “working closely with staff on Senate business.”

McConnell, 84, will finish his seventh and final term in Congress at the end of his term in January.

McConnell’s staff declined to answer questions on his condition Wednesday.

The senator’s spokesperson provided the same statement to PEOPLE his office had put out on June 22.

“Senator McConnell is still working closely with staff on Senate business and Kentucky matters as he continues his recovery. However, he will not be voting this week,” spokesperson Stephanie Penn said in an email.

Per The Associated Press:

McConnell’s health has been a subject of scrutiny for years.

He fell and sprained his wrist while walking out of a GOP luncheon in December 2024. He was hospitalized with a concussion in March 2023 and missed several weeks of work after falling in a Washington hotel. After he returned, he twice froze up during news conferences that summer, staring vacantly ahead before colleagues and staff came to his assistance.

McConnell had polio in his early childhood and he has long acknowledged some difficulty as an adult in walking and climbing stairs. In addition to his 2023 fall, he also tripped and fell in 2019 at his home in Kentucky. He had surgery for a fractured shoulder.

McConnell was first elected to the Senate in 1984 and was the Republican leader from 2007 until last year, serving as both majority and minority leader during that period.

He remains active in the Senate, showing up for work when the chamber is in session, and recent chairing public hearings and grilling officials from his perch as the chairman for the Senate Appropriations subcommittee on defense. He has intermittently used a wheelchair to navigate the Capitol and routinely has his security detail, as a former congressional leader, at his side.