Chris Murphy hospitalized following stroke

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) had a stroke, his office said in a Sunday statement, adding that he is “responding well to treatment.”

“Yesterday afternoon, Senator Murphy started experiencing numbness in his arm while at his son’s hockey game. He was taken to a local hospital, where it was discovered he had experienced a stroke,” Allison Herwitt, Murphy’s chief of staff, said.

“He was transferred to Johns Hopkins [University] for further monitoring and is responding well to treatment. The doctors are encouraged by his progress, he is awake and alert, and we are optimistic he will make a........

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