Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut has been hospitalized following a stroke, his office confirmed on Sunday.

In a statement, Murphy's chief of staff, Allison Herwitt, said the senator is expected to make a full recovery.

"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 prominent figure in the Democratic Party and has been an active campaign surrogate for candidates throughout the midterm cycle. He has been viewed as a possible 2028 presidential contender and has established himself as a foreign policy voice and advocate for aggressive executive branch oversight.

He recently returned from a multi-stop tour of the Middle East, after which he warned that President Trump would dramatically escalate his administration's confrontation with Iran following the midterm elections.

Murphy is the latest in a series of lawmakers to experience a health crisis this year. Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky missed months of Senate work during a lengthy hospital stay and rehabilitation process. Representative Tom Kean of New Jersey was absent from the Capitol for months for what he later announced was treatment for depression.

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