Missing Sen. Mitch McConnell has been cashing it in during his prolonged and mysterious absence from Capitol Hill.
McConnell, the former Senate majority leader who earns an annual salary of $174,000, made $43,500 in taxpayer-funded paychecks during his 92-day absence from the halls of Congress. The 84-year-old senator was taken to the hospital from his Washington, D.C. home on June 14 and has not been seen in public since.
The senator made even more money by not working for three months than the average annual income of one of his constituents, as the average income in Kentucky is just $35,821 per year, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
