House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi, D-San Francisco, has been hospitalized after being injured during an overseas trip in Luxembourg, her office said confirmed last week.
Pelosi was traveling with a bipartisan Congressional delegation to mark the 80th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge from World War II. She “sustained an injury during an official engagement and was admitted to the hospital for evaluation,” spokesperson Ian Krager said in a statement.
The statement said Pelosi, the first woman to serve as speaker of the House of Representatives, “is currently receiving excellent treatment” and “continues to work and regrets that she is unable to attend the remainder of the CODEL engagements to honor the courage of our service members during one of the greatest acts of American heroism in our nation’s history.”
The statement concluded, “Speaker Emerita Pelosi was personally and officially honored to travel with the distinguished delegation, many of whom had family members who fought in World War II — including her uncle, Johnny. She looks forward to returning home to the U.S. soon.”
Pelosi, 84, has represented San Francisco in Congress for the past 37 years.
