WASHINGTON — Vermont Sen. Patrick J. Leahy, the Senate’s president pro tempore and Appropriations Committee chairman, was discharged from a Washington-area hospital Friday after spending a night for “tests and observation,” his office said in a statement.
The 82-year-old Leahy, who is retiring at the end of the current Congress, was admitted to the hospital Thursday after not feeling well. His office did not disclose the nature of the illness or the types of tests that were conducted.
But after spending an “uneventful night” in the hospital, Leahy and his wife Marcelle planned to fly to Vermont Saturday morning for “a full schedule of planned events in the days ahead,” the statement said.
