It’s been a troubling day for U.S. Senators.
Sen. John W. Warner (R-Va.) checked into a hospital yesterday for observation of a heart condition, according to a statement released by his office today.
Warner, who was hospitalized last fall for a trial fibrillation — an irregular heartbeat — experienced a return of the condition and was admitted to Inova Fairfax Hospital for a “re-evaluation and readjustment of medications which require regular monitoring,” the statement said.
And:
Sen. Robert Byrd of West Virginia was hospitalized Tuesday at Walter Reed Army Medical Center after complaining of back pain after a fall at his home, his spokesman said.
Byrd, 90, the Democratic chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee and the nation’s longest-serving senator, was staying in the hospital overnight for observation, said spokesman Jesse Jacobs. It was not immediately clear whether he had suffered broken bones.
Jacobs said Byrd fell at his Virginia home Monday night. He came to his office Tuesday and was on the Senate floor to vote for an Indian health bill. But after noticeably wincing in pain, Byrd’s staff advised him to see the Capitol physician, who “smartly for a 90-year-old man advised him to go to Walter Reed for observation.”
Warner has already announced his retirement. Byrd is serving, I believe, a term that doesn’t end until 2013. I wish them both good health.
