Manchin Cracks McCaskill’s Rib While Performing Heimlich Maneuver

UNITED STATES - DECEMBER 13: Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., and Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., arrives to the Senate carriage entrance of the Capitol for votes on Saturday, December 13, 2014. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
UNITED STATES - DECEMBER 13: Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., and Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., arrive to the Senate carriage entrance of the Capitol for votes on Saturday, December 13, 2014. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin has cracked a rib of U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill while performing the Heimlich maneuver on the fellow Democrat when she began choking.

A spokesman for Manchin tells the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that McCaskill began choking during a luncheon for Senate Democrats on Thursday. Manchin used the Heimlich maneuver to dislodge the blockage in McCaskill’s throat, but he cracked a rib in the process.

McCaskill addressed Democrats at the annual Truman Dinner in St. Louis on Saturday. She said she would not be hugging people when she appeared late last week at an NAACP dinner in St. Louis.

Manchin is from West Virginia; McCaskill represents Missouri.

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  1. Perhaps a more suitable headline would be “Manchin saves McCaskill’s life”

  2. Points for Manchin.

  3. I still don’t like him, so plplplplplplplplplplplplplpl :stuck_out_tongue:

  4. SUBJECT: when the best intentions don’t go quite as planned.

    Hoping she will ultimately be ok.

  5. The guy saved her life. Somehow the article forgot to even mention that?

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