Hill Tweet News: Rep. Olsen’s Heart Trouble
March 13, 2009, 10:22pm
Rep. Pete Olsen fainted while working out in the House gym yesterday and had to have a pacemaker installed after being diagnosed with a slow heartbeat. The Texas Republican tweeted his thanks to people after his surgery.
“Thank you for your prayers and kind words,” he wrote at @peteolsen. He then directed his Twitter followers to a statement about the incident.
Here is a sampling of other Hill tweets from today:
- @ChuckGrassley advised biz lobbyists: “I visit w/many [GOP lawmakers]. Don’t take your friends for granted. You spend all time w/Dems.
- At an N.Y. school, @chrislee_ny26 unveiled legislation to protect students from sexual abuse in schools.
- @RepBillShuster warned people away from a fake HUD Web site that “phishes” for private date.
- @clairecmc opposes any legislature’s rollbacks of minimum wage on tipped workers. “That’s how I worked my way through law school!”
- @SenChrisDodd said of Syracuse’s six-overtime defeat of Connecticut in basketball, “Tough loss … but definitely one for the ages.”
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