Title: John Murthat in Hospital! Source:
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Pennsylvania Rep. John Murtha was back in the hospital Tuesday after undergoing gallbladder surgery last week.
The Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington said that the 77-year-old Democrat was a patient in its intensive care unit but referred all questions about his condition to his family.
Murtha’s congressional office confirmed that he underwent scheduled laparoscopic surgery to remove his gallbladder at Bethesda Naval Hospital last week. But the congressman’s spokesman refused comment on the seriousness of his condition or any complication that required hospitalization.
A powerhouse in the House Appropriations Committee and close friend of Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Murtha was hospitalized for a period in December as well when he suffered an infection in his gallbladder.
The doctors then decided that it should be removed once the infection had been tempered, and that set up the surgery last week at Bethesda.
In the interim, Murtha has been back in the Capitol. In his style, he returned from the hospital in December —with IV bandages still on him — to oversee passage of his defense appropriations bill.
