WASHINGTON (NEWSnet/AP) — Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley, the oldest member of the U.S. Senate, has been hospitalized in the Washington area with an infection and is receiving antibiotic infusions, his office said Tuesday.
Grassley, 90, will return to work “as soon as possible following doctors’ orders,” his office said in a statement, and he is in good spirits. The statement did not give any additional details about his condition.
He became the oldest senator last fall after the death of Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California. She was three months his senior.
Grassley's absence from the Senate comes as Congress is hurtling towards Friday's deadline to pass a stopgap spending bill to avert a government shutdown.
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