WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Home Speaker Nancy Pelosi had hip-replacement surgical procedure Saturday at a U.S. army hospital in Germany after falling whereas at an occasion in Luxembourg with different members of Congress.
Pelosi, 84, “is well on the mend,” Ian Krager, a spokesman for the California Democrat, stated in an announcement.
Pelosi thanked the employees at Landstuhl Regional Medical Heart and the hospital in Luxembourg, the place she was additionally handled, for “their excellent care and kindness.”
She was in Europe with a bipartisan congressional delegation to mark the eightieth anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge in World Struggle II.
Pelosi tripped and fell whereas at an occasion and fractured her hip, in keeping with folks conversant in her harm.
Amongst these on the journey was Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, who posted on social media Friday that he was “praying for a speedy recovery,” for Pelosi. The 2 lawmakers had been captured holding palms in a gaggle photograph that day on the U.S. Embassy in Luxembourg.
Pelosi was first elected in 1987. She served as speaker twice, stepped down from her management submit two years in the past however remained in Congress, and was reelected to symbolize her San Francisco district in November.