Veteran Democratic Congresswoman Louise Slaughter dies
WASHINGTON (AP) " Veteran U.S. Rep. Louise Slaughter, a Kentucky blacksmith's daughter who went on to chair one Congress's most important committees, died Friday at a Washington hospital where she was being treated after falling in her home, her top aide said. She was 88.The New York Democrat died at George Washington University Hospital a week after a fall in which Slaughter had sustained a concussion, said Liam Fitzsimmons, her chief of staff.Slaughter had been the first [...]
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