Ted Kennedy Suffers Seizure Following Capitol Lunch

Not much word yet other than the Senator suffered some type of seizure during the Capitol Hill lunch for the new president and was taken from the Hill by ambulance. More later.

UPDATE:

Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., who is battling a brain tumor, was taken away from the congressional luncheon in convulsions.

Kennedy was at a table with Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., Vice President Mondale and Mrs. Mondale, and others. While at the table, Kennedy began having seizures that lasted for several minutes. As they were carrying Kennedy out of the room, he was still seizing. President Barack Obama went out of the room with him, but he is back in the luncheon room now.

We are also told that Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., the oldest member of the Senate, was so upset and distraught from what he had witnessed, that he needed to be taken out. Byrd was conscious when he was taken from the room. The two have been friends for a very, very long time.

It could be he was just bored to death by sitting with Kerry, Mondale and Byrd.