Rep. Tom Kean to return to Congress on June 30 after monthslong absence - BERITAJA

Rep. Tom Kean Jr., R-N.J., plans to return to Capitol Hill connected June 30 aft missing much than 100 votes during a about four-month absence from Washington.

Kean’s main of staff, Dan Scharfenberger, confirmed to Beritaja connected Thursday the day of Kean’s planned return. The New Jersey Globe first reported the news.

Kean’s agency antecedently said that the congressman’s absence was owed to a “personal aesculapian issue” but has not disclosed immoderate further specifications connected his condition.

Kean past voted successful the Capitol connected March 5, but his agency has kept progressive connected societal media while he’s stayed retired of the nationalist eye.

The congressman is moving for re-election and will look disconnected pinch Democrat Rebecca Bennett, a erstwhile Navy chopper aviator and healthcare executive, successful November.

President Donald Trump, who has endorsed the New Jersey Republican, reiterated his support for Kean pinch a Truth Social post connected June 1.

Trump wrote that Kean was “working tirelessly” and has his “Complete and Total Endorsement for Re-Election.”

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., told reporters past period that he said pinch Kean successful April and downplayed the effect of his absence connected Kean’s re-election campaign.

“He’s had a aesculapian issue, and he’s going to beryllium afloat transparent and disclose each that ... but I don’t moreover cognize the details. It’s a member’s individual privateness connected immoderate matters they’re dealing with,” Johnson told reporters successful May. “He’s going to get re-elected, and we look guardant to welcoming him backmost present very soon.”

Johnson told reporters past week that he “encouraged Tom to beryllium transparent” about his condition.