WASHINGTON (AP) — House Majority Whip Steve Scalise — who was critically wounded in a shooting at a baseball practice last month — has been discharged from a Washington hospital.
MedStar Washington Hospital Center says the six-term Louisiana Republican was released from the hospital on Tuesday and is beginning “intensive inpatient rehabilitation.”
It isn’t identifying the facility.
The hospital says in a statement that Scalise (skuh-LEES’) was in good spirits and looking forward to returning to work once he completes his rehabilitation.
Scalise and four other people were injured June 14 when a man opened fire on a Republican baseball practice in nearby Alexandria, Virginia.
The 51-year-old congressman was struck in the hip, and the bullet tore into blood vessels, bones and internal organs. He has has several surgeries.
Good luck, Rep. Scalise. I hope you’ll appreciate how vital access to health care is when so much of one’s life is out of one’s control.
Snark, right?
Rep. Scalise, I wish you a full and speedy recovery, so we can get back soon to my calling you a prick again.
I’m really hoping that Mr. Scalise received a blood transfusion donated by one of “those” people.
Might have a stabilizing influence on his deep-seated racism…
He like McCain enjoys taxpayer provided medical care. Yet neither gives a hoot for anyone else who might need that. So sorry as I am to see anyone the victim of awful violence, I cannot sympathize with him.