Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., was hospitalized Saturday after suffering a stroke at his son’s hockey game and is recovering, the lawmaker’s staff said in a statement.

“Yesterday afternoon, Senator Murphy started experiencing numbness in his arm while at his son’s hockey game,” Allison Herwitt, Murphy’s chief of staff, said in a statement Sunday, adding that Murphy was taken to a hospital, where he is being treated for a stroke.

The 53-year-old lawmaker was transferred to Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore for monitoring and treatment. Herwitt said Murphy “is responding well to treatment.

“The doctors are encouraged by his progress, he is awake and alert, and we are optimistic he will make a full recovery,” she wrote.

Further details surrounding the severity of the stroke and Murphy’s condition have not been made public. Fellow lawmakers expressed support for Murphy on Sunday.

“Barbara & I are praying for Sen Chris Murphy as he recovers from a stroke,” Sen. Chuck Grassley, R.-Iowa, wrote in a social media post Sunday.

Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., said that he is “Keeping @ChrisMurphyCT in my thoughts for a full and speedy recovery. We need his leadership to stand up against foreign wars and corruption.”

“My friend @ChrisMurphyCT is a fighter,” Rep. Jason Crow, D-Colo., wrote on X. “I’m sad to see this news, but glad he’s getting medical treatment. Hopeful he’s on his way to a full recovery.”

Murphy, the ranking member on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, would be in line to become chairman if Democrats take control of the Senate on Tuesday.

Earlier this year Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., fell at home and subsequently contracted pneumonia. He returned home in August after a lengthy hospitalization and rehabilitation

In 2022, Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., suffered a stroke during his Senate campaign.

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