Rep. Tom Kean Jr. will return to the House on June 30, his spokesperson said.
Harrison Neely, Kean's spokesperson, said, "Congressman Kean is eager to return to in person work on June 30 and resume a full schedule," and that Kean "plans to be fully transparent regarding the nature of his health issue and you should expect to hear from him in person June 30th."
Kean has been absent from Capitol Hill since March 5 and last voted in the House on March 5, a span Politico described as 117 days after his last vote; ABC reported he has missed more than 100 votes and has not been spotted in Washington or his district.
Kean's office has attributed the absence to an undisclosed medical issue, and his staff had repeatedly promised he would return "soon." In April, Kean's social media account posted that he had been dealing with a personal medical issue and that his doctors expected him to recover, though he has not explained what the medical issue was.
The 57-year-old lawmaker's office provided a specific return date for the first time when it said he plans to attend the June 30 House session.
Kean is running for reelection in a closely watched battleground district and is set to face Democratic nominee Rebecca Bennett; national groups have heavily backed Bennett, and a super PAC with Republican ties spent $650,000 to boost her primary rivals.
Your Community PAC, a Democratic super PAC, this month spent $289,000 on ads highlighting Kean's absence.
Bennett said in a June 3 phone interview, "I sincerely wish him well. I hope he has a good recovery. But he’s absolutely failed this district, so we’re going to hold him accountable for his voting record. It wasn’t like he was doing anything for us when he was showing up for work versus when he was not."
Reporters have staked out Kean's house, and one reporter traveled to a Kean family vacation home on an exclusive island in Long Island Sound after hearing rumors they might find him there.
Speaker Mike Johnson told reporters earlier this month that he had been in touch with Kean, said Kean had asked him not to discuss the nature of his health issue "and I'm going to honor that," and officials noted that the House is scheduled to begin a week-long July 4 recess two days after Kean's planned return, with two more weeks of session after that before breaking for the remainder of July and all of August.