Timing of Sen. John McCain's return to Capitol Hill a question mark

[libertybele]

He needs to do the right thing and step down.  I realize right now he's a placeholder in the Senate, but the people of the U.S. and AZ deserve better. He certainly can't vote from home and so far right now all he seems to be doing is criticizing the president from afar.

Timing of Sen. John McCain's return to Capitol Hill a question mark

With January half over, Sen. John McCain has yet to return to work on Capitol Hill.

The veteran Arizona Republican, 81, was diagnosed last summer with a deadly form of brain cancer known as glioblastoma and was hospitalized in Maryland last month for a viral infection and side effects of ongoing chemotherapy and radiation treatment.

There has not been an official update on McCain's health since Dec. 17, when he returned to Arizona for physical rehabilitation. At that time, his Senate office said he was "grateful for the excellent care he continues to receive" and appreciative of the support from around the nation, and "looks forward to returning to Washington in January.”

Since then, unofficial reports about McCain have dribbled out.......

........McCain has not returned to the Senate yet from Arizona and it doesn't appear that he will do so this week.

But he has been continuing to post via Twitter and otherwise make his presence felt. On Tuesday, the Washington Post's website published a guest column from McCain calling on President Donald Trump to stop attacking the media..........

..........Still, McCain's continued absence is potentially problematic for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and other Senate Republicans because they control the 100-member chamber with a narrow 51-member majority.

McCain did not participate in last month's big tax-reform vote. So far this month he has mostly missed votes related to nominations, but this week Congress must pass a new continuing resolution to avoid a partial government shutdown. On Tuesday, senators barely cleared the 60-vote threshold to advance legislation to reauthorize the government's ability to conduct surveillance on foreign intelligence targets by collecting electronic communications such as emails and text messages. A final vote to renew the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, provisions will come this week...........

https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/arizona/2018/01/17/senator-john-mccain-return-washington-d-c-timing/1038141001/