The 80-year-old Senate president pro tempore was taken to a local hospital and is under observation after he complained that he did not feel well after overseeing the swearing-in of senators as jurors in the trial earlier Tuesday.
Leahy at times sounded muffled and out of breath during the proceedings.
What will they do if he isn’t back by February 8th to oversee former President Trump’s fake impeachment?
Update from The Times of Israel at 3:15 a.m. ET: They ran tests and sent him home.
The Senate president pro tempore job normally goes to the longest-serving member of the Senate’s majority party. Leahy was first elected in 1974, making him the longest-serving current senator of either party.Update from The Times of Israel at 3:15 a.m. ET: They ran tests and sent him home.
Leahy will be chairman once again this year of the Senate Appropriations Committee, a panel that controls a large chunk of the federal budget and will be in the middle of President Joe
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’s effort to provide more spending to combat the pandemic and recharge the economy.
Leahy is the fifth-oldest current senator. Senator Dianne Feinstein
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, a Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, Democrat, 87, is the oldest.