Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., seems at a information convention at the U.S. Capitol on September 18, 2025. Murphy’s workplace says he was hospitalized this weekend with a stroke.

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Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., has been hospitalized following a stroke, according to his workplace.

In a assertion on Sunday, Murphy’s chief of employees, Allison Herwitt, said he is expected to make a full restoration.

“Yesterday afternoon, Senator Murphy started experiencing numbness in his arm while at his son’s hockey game,” Herwitt wrote. “He was taken to a local hospital, where it was discovered he had experienced a stroke. He was transferred to Johns Hopkins for further monitoring and is responding well to treatment.”

Murphy, 53, is a outstanding determine in the celebration and has been a prolific marketing campaign surrogate for candidates through the midterm cycle. Viewed as a doable 2028 presidential contender, Murphy has carved out a place as a overseas coverage chief and champion of aggressive government department oversight.

He just lately returned from a multistop tour in the Middle East, after which he warned that President Trump would dramatically escalate his warfare on Iran after the midterm election.

The lawmaker is the newest in a string of lawmakers to expertise a well being disaster this 12 months. Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., missed months of Senate work during a prolonged hospital keep and rehabilitation course of. Rep. Tom Kean, R-N.J., was lacking from the Capitol for months for what he later announced was therapy for despair.

In 2022, three outstanding Democratic lawmakers — Sen. Ben Ray Lujan of New Mexico, Chis Van Hollen of Maryland, and then-Senate candidate John Fetterman — were all hospitalized for strokes.