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Critics accuse ailing McConnell of using autopen to sign disaster request
A Signature Cannot Substitute for a SenatorThe Signature Is Not The StoryMitch McConnell has been hospitalized for 46 days after a fall he said left him unconscious, and that absence has now collided with a simple, revealing question: who signed a disaster-assistance letter to Kentucky in his name? The public spectacle around the autopen is the least interesting part. The real issue is that a sitting senator can disappear from view for weeks while his office still produces the appearance of representation.That is not a clerical curiosity. It is institutional power operating through…
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