WASHINGTON, July 12 -- Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, issued the following news release: * * * Statement From Senator Mitch McConnell * WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) released the following note to constituents regarding his hospitalization and recovery: "To my fellow Kentuckians - "When you elected me to a seventh term and made me our Commonwealth's longest serving Senator, you did so trusting that I'd keep showing up to fight for you every day. And over the p  more