{"id":1689091,"date":"2022-10-14T11:19:02","date_gmt":"2022-10-14T15:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1689091"},"modified":"2022-10-14T11:30:12","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T15:30:12","slug":"top-senate-democrat-patrick-leahy-hospitalized-office-calls-it-a-precaution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/top-senate-democrat-patrick-leahy-hospitalized-office-calls-it-a-precaution\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Senate Democrat Patrick Leahy Hospitalized; Office Calls It A \u2018Precaution\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftop-senate-democrat-patrick-leahy-hospitalized-office-calls-it-a-precaution%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1689091&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/patrick-leahy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senator Patrick Leahy<\/a> (D-VT), the third longest-serving <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/u-s-senate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">U.S. senator<\/a> of all time, was hospitalized Thursday near Washington D.C. after feeling unwell, his office said.<\/p>\n<p>Leahy, 82, was expected to stay overnight as a \u201cprecaution,\u201d his office said Thursday evening. \u201cAt the recommendation of his doctors, he is expected to remain overnight for observation,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>As Senate president pro tempore, Leahy is third in the line of presidential succession, after Vice President Kamala Harris and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA). He was first elected in 1975, but has been facing health problems in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>Leahy, who presided over the second impeachment of former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">President Donald Trump<\/a>, was briefly hospitalized during the trial for what his office described as a precaution.<\/p>\n<p>Over the summer, Leahy broke his hip after falling at his Vermont home and required hip surgery. His office attributed the fall to his poor depth perception, which is a result of him having been born blind in one eye. \u201cHe has taken some remarkable dingers over the years, but this one finally caught up with him,\u201d his office said.<\/p>\n<p>Leahy is not seeking re-election, having announced in 2021 that he would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/time-to-pass-the-torch-senate-democrat-elected-during-vietnam-war-says-he-wont-seek-re-election\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">retire from the Senate<\/a> in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>His retirement announcement opened up a senate seat that has stayed Democrat since the Vietnam War, although Democrat Peter Welch was up 35 points over the Republican candidate during the last <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/epolls\/2022\/senate\/vt\/vermont_senate_nolan_vs_welch-7533.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RealClearPolitics<\/a> poll, which was taken in April. Democratic-socialist Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is the other senator from Vermont.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT), the third longest-serving U.S. senator of all time, was hospitalized Thursday near Washington D.C. after feeling unwell, his office said. Leahy, 82, was expected to stay overnight as a \u201cprecaution,\u201d his office said Thursday evening. \u201cAt the recommendation of his doctors, he is expected to remain overnight for observation,\u201d the statement &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1890310,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Top Senate Democrat Patrick Leahy Hospitalized; Office Calls It A \u2018Precaution\u2019","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1689091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Top Senate Democrat Patrick Leahy Hospitalized; Office Calls It A \u2018Precaution\u2019","fifu_finder_url":"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/top-senate-democrat-patrick-leahy-hospitalized-office-calls-it-a-precaution","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1689091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1890310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1689091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1689091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1689091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}