WASHINGTON — A pair of high-profile absences has thrown the Senate right into a state of uncertainty at a vital time, elevating questions on whether or not Democrats will be capable to conduct enterprise and who will lead Republicans by way of a probably chaotic interval as they attempt to reclaim the bulk subsequent yr.
Neither Senator Mitch McConnell, the Kentucky Republican and minority chief, nor Senator Dianne Feinstein, the six-term California Democrat, has been seen publicly in additional than a month as…