The 19-term Democrat was the first Vietnam veteran elected to Congress. He chairs the influential House Defense appropriations subcommittee.
Pa. lawmaker hospitalized with abdominal pains
WASHINGTON (AP) - December 14, 2009
His spokesman says he was admitted to the National Naval Medical
Center in Bethesda, Md., on Sunday night. The spokesman, Matt
Mazonkey, says it has been determined that the 77-year-old retired
Marine colonel has a gallbladder issue. Mazonkey says Murtha is
resting and doing well at the hospital.
