MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont has damaged a hip in a fall at his house and was to endure surgical procedure to restore it, his workplace mentioned Thursday.
The 82-year-old Democrat fell Wednesday night time in McLean, Virginia, the assertion mentioned. Docs decided the most effective plan of action could be to have surgical procedure to restore the hip as quickly as doable.
Leahy was born blind in a single eye.
“The senator has had a lifelong battle with lowered depth notion,” the assertion mentioned. “He has taken some exceptional dingers through the years, however this one lastly caught up with him.”
Leahy was “anticipated to make a full restoration and start a wholesome course of bodily remedy instantly.”
Leahy is the longest-serving sitting senator. He introduced in November that he won’t search reelection this fall. By the point his time period expires in January 2023, he may have served for 48 years within the Senate.
Leahy was taken to the hospital in January 2020, hours after he had begun presiding over the second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump. Leahy had not been feeling nicely and was taken there out of an abundance of warning. After being examined, he was despatched house.
Leahy is the final of the so-called Watergate infants, the surge of congressional Democrats elected in 1974 after President Richard Nixon resigned to keep away from impeachment.
