India, July 27 -- The United States Senate is set to convene on Monday, July 27, for a key vote to appoint Donald Trump's nominee Walter Clayton as the new Director of National Intelligence.

But the lingering question remains on the Republican Party camp: will Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell be present for Monday's roll call at the Senate? McConnell remains hospitalized at the George Washington University Hospital in Washington DC undergoing rehabilitation after his treatment, according to his staff.

Those claims have remained under question as Senator McConnell has not been seen in public since his June 12 hospitalization. Many popular social media commentators have claimed that McConnell could be "brain dead" amid his prolonged absen...