Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) presided over his first Senate subcommittee hearing after a two-month absence for his treatment of clinical depression and an ongoing recovery from a stroke he suffered last year.
“Hunger is not a Republican or a Democrat issue. It’s all of our issue that we have to take it on,” said Fetterman, chairman of the subcommittee on Food and Nutrition, Specialty Crops, Organics and Research. “We need to come together and stop playing political games with Americans’ access to food.”Introducing the witnesses who would give testimony Wednesday, Fetterman paused as he noticed one of the men was tall, bald and dressed in a gray suit — just like Fetterman.
Fetterman’s health struggles have prompted questions and criticisms about his ability to serve. Fetterman’s wife, Gisele, wrote last month in anthat the barrage of right-wing attacks on their family “exploded” after the senator announced he was voluntarily receiving inpatient treatment for clinical depression.
Fetterman returned to the Senate on Monday, along with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell , who had been out for nearly six weeks after he
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