Democratic Rep. Kathy Manning of North Carolina and a member of her staff were involved in a “serious car accident” last Thursday morning in Greensboro while en route to a district event. Her office stated that it was a three-vehicle wreck and that another driver was cited.
Manning and her aide were released from Greensboro’s Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital on Thursday. The congresswoman’s injuries were described in detail by Manning’s office on Friday, and it was announced that she would continue working from home as she recovers. The U.S. House is currently on August recess.
Manning was released from the hospital with a broken sternum and a broken bone in her foot and is now “recuperating well at home and will continue to work from home as she recovers,” her office said Friday, CNN reported.
“Many thanks to the first responders and the Cone Health team for their timely response and assistance,” her office added. “Rep. Manning is extremely grateful to the outstanding first responders and the extremely professional and kind staff at the Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital. She is very grateful for all the kind words, prayers, and well wishes she has received.”
According to the State Highway Patrol, troopers arrived at the scene of the collision on US Highway 29 in Guilford County at about 10:15 a.m.
According to a patrol statement, a northbound driver making a left turn collided with the southbound vehicle carrying Manning. The third car was stopped at a red light when the northbound vehicle struck it, according to the patrol.
The patrol reported that the 34-year-old nearby Alamance County man who was operating the northbound car was charged with failure to yield.
The 66-year-old Democrat is in her second House term.
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This is the second time in a week that a member of Congress was hospitalized.
A key Republican Senator senator was hospitalized after suffering facial numbness and faces weeks of recovery.
Republican Sen. Katie Britt of Alabama announced that she was stricken over the weekend, according to WBMA-LD.
“While with my family in Montgomery this past weekend, I experienced a sudden onset of numbness in my face. I was admitted to Baptist Medical Center South for evaluation. Doctors determined that my symptoms were a result of swelling of a facial nerve, most likely caused by a post-viral infection,” she said in a statement.
“A specialist from UAB has subsequently evaluated me on an outpatient basis and concurred with the prognosis and course of treatment,” she said, referring to the University of Alabama at Birmingham. “My condition is not life-threatening, and recovery could take several weeks. I am grateful for the medical professionals providing excellent care, and my family and I are deeply grateful for your prayers.”
Britt was the first woman from Alabama to be elected to the Senate in November, replacing GOP Sen. Richard C. Shelby, whose chief of staff she had previously been.
Britt, 41, is also the youngest Republican woman ever elected to the U.S. Senate.
The Senate is currently in recess until after Labor Day.
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Britt has said she wants to inspire others to succeed.
“To think that there are little girls and young women across our state who can look at what we have achieved together on this campaign and be inspired — or be instilled with the confidence and hope that they can shoot for the stars and achieve their dreams — is powerful,” Britt said in an interview last year.
Britt’s memoir, “God Calls Us to Do Hard Things,” is coming out on Nov. 7, according to Axios.
The promotional page for the book states that Britt “shares some candid advice for how to overcome personal challenges, appreciate blessed moments, make our lives more fulfilling, and keep an unshakeable faith in God, family, and our country.”
Britt will include recollections from “working long days in her parents’ hardware store, to finding her path at the University of Alabama and marrying the captain of the football team, to an extremely close call with a tornado that destroyed her house while she held her baby in her arms, to her upstart campaign for Senate,” the publisher says.
“At a moment when politics feel so toxic and broken,” Britt will encourage readers “to listen to your heart, serve and inspire,” the announcement says.
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