(CNN) –– Ron Wright, a Republican representing Texas, filed for resignation, announcing his resignation from the Congressional Congregation on Monday. Agreeing with the statement, Wright was hospitalized after being covid-19.
“Congresswoman Ron Wright failed miserably on the oath of 67 years on February 7, 2021. His wife, Susan, was present at the presence of her Senor and Salvador,” the statement said. “During the previous weeks, Ron and Susan were hospitalized at Baylor Hospital and Dallas when they had contraindicated covid-19.”
Ron Wright is the first member of Congress to be able to oppose covid-19. In December, congresswoman Luke Letlow failed to be diagnosed with the disease.
The official of the Wright Congress announced that it was positive by covid-19 the 21st of January. At the moment, the congresswoman said in a statement: “I am still experiencing minorities. But in general, I feel good and continue working for the people of the sixth district of this house this week ».
The Republican leader of the House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy, pronounced himself in a communion this month. “Our crowns are apesadumbrados with the news of Ron’s death. “Judy and we are sending our most sincere oracles to Susan and his daughters during this difficult time,” he said.
“Ron Wright was not a listener who passed with his electorate, Texas in the United States,” McCarthy said.
The President of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat from California, also issued a statement. Pelosi expressed his condolences to the family of Ron Wright and praised the “public service life of the Republican Congressional Diocese for the Texas People.”
“While we are mourning the death of Congresswoman Wright, members of Congress are united in the pain and grief we have for families and our longing for the more than 460,000 estates he lost during the coronavirus spread,” Pelosi said in a statement. “Every death is a tragedy in which we break the rage and demand a strong and urgent action,” he concluded.
Wright’s office statement issued this month signaling that the congresswoman also had a fight against cancer.
“For the past few years, Congresswoman Wright has maintained a rigorous work schedule on the floor of the United States House of Representatives and in her case in the Sixth District of the Texas Congress while receiving treatment for cancer,” the statement said.
During his fight against cancer, members of the Republican Party returned to Wright in December. In this occasion lucieron corbatines in the Capitol, because it is used with frequency.
Wright represents all of the sixteen districts of the Texas Congress since January 2019.
CNN’s Manu Raju contributes important information.