Senate Republican Conference Chairman John Barrasso (R-WY) announced on Monday he will remain home in Wyoming this week after undergoing abdominal surgery over the weekend. 

The No. 3 Senate Republican, 71, said through his office that he underwent a “successful abdominal laparoscopic surgery for an abdominal obstruction” at the Banner Wyoming Medical Center. 

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