Sen. Murphy discharged from hospital after stroke, will miss weeks of votes

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Connecticut) was discharged from the hospital Friday after suffering a stroke last week and expects to be absent from the Senate for several weeks, according to his office.

“Last Saturday afternoon, I felt something was not right with my body and called 9-1-1 out of an abundance of caution, and I’m glad I did,” Murphy said in as statement Friday. “I was diagnosed with a small bleed in the thalamus region of my brain.”