Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) was hospitalized after suffering a stroke over the weekend, his office announced on Sunday.
“Yesterday afternoon, Senator Murphy started experiencing numbness in his arm while at his son’s hockey game,” Allison Herwitt, the Democratic senator’s chief of staff, said in a statement to media outlets on Sunday. “He was taken to a local hospital, where it was discovered he had experienced a stroke.”
The 53-year-old senator was taken to Johns Hopkins University “for further monitoring and is responding well to treatment,” she said. “The doctors are encouraged by his progress, he is awake and alert, and we are optimistic he will make a full recovery.”…