Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal received “completely successful” surgery Sunday to treat a broken leg suffered during the victory parade for the University of Connecticut Huskies celebrating their April 3 NCAA men’s basketball tournament victory.
Blumenthal, 77, said he expected to back at work next week, a statement that undoubtedly brought some relief to Democratic leadership.
Given that the party holds only a very slim Senate majority, every vote matters.
Politico noted that three other Democratic senators — California’s Dianne Feinstein, Illinois’ Dick Durbin, and Pennsylvania’s John Fetterman have all been absent from the Senate floor for health reasons of one sort another this year.
The party holds a razor-thing 50-49-1 majority.
Blumenthal tweeted that he was injured “after a fellow parade goer tripped & fell on me during the parade.”
Fellow Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy was, unsurprisingly, supportive.
Of course, not everyone on Twitter was as big of a fan as Murphy.
Blumenthal, a former U.S. Marine and Connecticut state attorney general, has been a member of the Senate since first winning election in 2010.
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.