Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) chaired his first subcommittee hearing Wednesday after his two-month absence for “clinical depression.”

Fetterman fumbled through his opening statement, mispronouncing names and inflecting different words making it sound like he was asking questions.

When the C-SPAN cameras showed the crowd, it was an awkward scene, as one commenter pointed out they were “trying not to laugh.”

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