February 9, 2023

Democratic S⁠⁠en. John Fetterman has been hospitalized overnight for observation after experiencing lightheadedness at a Senate retreat Wednesday. Fetterman's office said the Pennsylvania Senator was in "good spirits and talking with his staff and family."

Via CNN:

The Pennsylvania Democrat was elected to the Senate in November while recovering from a stroke he had suffered in May. According to his spokesperson, there was no evidence of a new stroke Wednesday, but he was set to undergo more tests during his hospital stay.

"Towards the end of the Senate Democratic retreat today, Senator John Fetterman began feeling lightheaded. He left and called his staff, who picked him up and drove him to The George Washington University Hospital. Initial tests did not show evidence of a new stroke, but doctors are running more tests and John is remaining overnight for observation," Fetterman's communications director, Joe Calvello, said in the statement.

Last year, Fetterman checked himself into a hospital in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, several days before the primary. Fetterman won the nomination while in the hospital and underwent a nearly three-hour surgery that same day to implant a defibrillator. He was released from the hospital after a nine-day stay.

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