WASHINGTON (AP) — House Majority Whip Steve Scalise has returned to the Capitol following surgery this month as he recovers from injuries suffered during a shooting rampage at a baseball practice last June.
The Louisiana Republican told reporters Monday he was “feeling great” after the Jan. 10 surgery, the latest in a series of operations required after a bullet struck his hip, shattering bone and damaging internal organs.
Scalise said the latest surgery “was very successful, but it took a long recovery.”
He said he was glad to be back at work in time to vote for an expected deal to reopen the federal government after a three-day partial shutdown.
Scalise, who is 52, intends to stand for re-election, but said, “in the meantime we have of lot of work to do.”
That’s too bad.
It’s nice to have health care, eh?
He’s ready to work hard to ensure American can set some new records.
“According to recent statistics, 13,286 people were killed in the US by firearms in 2015, and 26,819 people were injured,” Scalise told reporters. “I think we can do much better than that.”