<p><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/patrick-leahy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Senator Patrick Leahy</a> (D-VT), the third longest-serving <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/u-s-senate" target="_blank" rel="noopener">U.S. senator</a> of all time, was hospitalized Thursday near Washington D.C. after feeling unwell, his office said.</p>
<p>Leahy, 82, was expected to stay overnight as a &#8220;precaution,&#8221; his office said Thursday evening. “At the recommendation of his doctors, he is expected to remain overnight for observation,” the statement said.</p>
<p>As Senate president pro tempore, Leahy is third in the line of presidential succession, after Vice President Kamala Harris and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA). He was first elected in 1975, but has been facing health problems in recent years.</p>
<p>Leahy, who presided over the second impeachment of former <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">President Donald Trump</a>, was briefly hospitalized during the trial for what his office described as a precaution.</p>
<p>Over the summer, Leahy broke his hip after falling at his Vermont home and required hip surgery. His office attributed the fall to his poor depth perception, which is a result of him having been born blind in one eye. “He has taken some remarkable dingers over the years, but this one finally caught up with him,&#8221; his office said.</p>
<p>Leahy is not seeking re-election, having announced in 2021 that he would <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/time-to-pass-the-torch-senate-democrat-elected-during-vietnam-war-says-he-wont-seek-re-election" target="_blank" rel="noopener">retire from the Senate</a> in 2023.</p>
<p>His retirement announcement opened up a senate seat that has stayed Democrat since the Vietnam War, although Democrat Peter Welch was up 35 points over the Republican candidate during the last <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2022/senate/vt/vermont_senate_nolan_vs_welch-7533.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">RealClearPolitics</a> poll, which was taken in April. Democratic-socialist Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is the other senator from Vermont.</p>

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