WASHINGTON, July 27 -- Sen. Mitch McConnell issued the following press release:
U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and the Office of the Attending Physician released the following today:
"I'm still working hard to get back to my full schedule of work in the Senate and in Kentucky, keeping up with intense physical therapy per my doctors' orders. Unfortunately, that means I won't be able to make it to Fancy Farm, Kentucky this Saturday.
"There's no place I'd rather be on the first Saturday in August than with the good people of western Kentucky, feasting on pork and mutton. When I first attended forty-two years ago, Fancy Farm was a pretty lonely place to be a Republican. But, my, how times have changed. Today, western Kentucky is a conse...