Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., is undergoing another round of cancer treatment for a brain tumor diagnosed last year but is in remission, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. said Tuesday.
Surrogate senators have been filling in for Kennedy on the Senate Health and Labor committee, trying to craft a massive health care overhaul bill, but they say Kennedy is expected to take over when he returns to the Senate in June.
Reid said he talked to Kennedy this week.
“He’s doing fine,” Reid said. “He’s going through another regimen of treatment which he said is not unusual. This is something that was expected. He wanted to have the treatment next week. They had to move it up a week, as I understand it.”
Asked if Kennedy’s cancer is remission, Reid answered, “As far as I know it is, yes.”
Reid also updated reporters on the health of Sen. Robert Byrd, D-Va., who at 91 is the oldest lawmaker in Congress and its longest-serving member. Byrd was hospitalized late last week with a high temperature. Reid said he was to be released from the hospital today, “if not, in the next few days.”
