U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-3rd District, underwent an outpatient operation on Friday after breaking her wrist in a fall days earlier.
The congresswoman fractured her right wrist after falling at a CVS on Sunday, Jan. 4. She got a temporary cast that night and scheduled the procedure for later that week.
Dr. Kevin O’Malley treated DeLauro, 82, at MedStar Health Medical Center at Brandywine in Brandywine, Md., on Friday morning. It was an outpatient procedure that lasted for 90 minutes, and she left the center shortly after it was done.
A spokesperson at her office said she’s expected to make a full recovery and have full mobility in her wrist.
“Congresswoman DeLauro received a routine, brief outpatient operation on her wrist on Friday morning at 9 a.m. to address a recent fracture. The operation was a success, and her wrist is expected to fully heal,” DeLauro spokesperson King Green said in a statement provided to the Connecticut Mirror on Monday.
DeLauro has continued to work since the operation. She began Monday at an event in New Haven. The U.S. House was set to hold the first votes of the week in the evening.
Wearing a cast on her right wrist, DeLauro attended a press conference about the Trump administration’s cancellation of Full-Service Community Schools grants. Schools in New Haven, Waterbury, and Hartford lost those federal funds at the end of 2025.
As the ranking member of the House Appropriations Committee, DeLauro is in the middle of negotiating and trying to pass the remaining full-year spending bills to fund the rest of the federal government before the Jan. 30 deadline.
Her committee released another spending package Sunday in fiscal year 2026 funding for the State Department, Treasury Department, the IRS, the federal judiciary and some other agencies.
Last summer, DeLauro went for surgery to treat spinal stenosis while Congress was on its month-long August recess. The surgery was successful, and she went to physical therapy after the procedure. She returned to Washington, D.C., after Labor Day when Congress came back into session.
The Mayo Clinic describes spinal stenosis as a condition where the spaces in the backbone are too small. It is a more common diagnosis in people who are over 50.
DeLauro is running for reelection in November’s midterm elections, seeking her 19th term to serve Connecticut’s 3rd Congressional District based in her hometown of New Haven.
She is the longest-serving member of Connecticut’s congressional delegation. She was first elected in 1990.