Virginia Foxx Fell Off The Broom!

The stairs didn't treat Virginia Foxx well.

The 81-year old far right lawmaker from North Carolina took a nasty fall. Oh well.

Rep. Virginia Foxx will be out for a few weeks. The western North Carolina lawmaker best known for her insufferable antics towards people of color took a fall on a set of marble stairs at the U.S. Capitol.

The lawmaker was bleeding from this incident.

Foxx is the most recent elderly lawmaker to have hurt herself while on the job. Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, 84, was admitted to a hospital after sustaining a hip injury in Luxembourg. She required surgery and was seen without her signature stilettos when the House of Representatives reconvened Friday.

Just a few days before Pelosi's accident, former Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, 82, fell and sprained his wrist after a Senate Republican lunch on Capitol Hill.

"Rep. Foxx slipped while walking down the marble staircase outside the House chamber after walking up to talk to her family in the gallery. After being helped to her feet, and looked over by medical personnel, she proceeded on her own to the Attending Physician's office to get treated for a few individual cuts," Ives said. "Everything seems to be okay."

Foxx, along with the other members of the House of Representatives, were on the Hill on Friday for the first day of the 119th Congress. The House reelected Speaker Mike Johnson for a second term. Foxx was one of the members chosen to tally the votes.

Foxx has represented North Carolina's fifth congressional district since 2005. She served as secretary of the House Republican Conference from 2013 to 2017. She served as the House Committee on Education and Labor chair from 2017 to 2019 and again since 2023.

During her time in office, Foxx was one of the 11 members of Congress to vote against the $51 billion aid package to victims of Hurricane Katrina. She also introduced the Preserving Employee Wellness Programs Act in 2017.

She later voted against both articles of impeachment in 2019 for former President Donald Trump, with her also being one of the 147 Republican lawmakers who objected to the certification of electoral votes from the 2020 presidential election on January 6, 2021.

Foxx is an opponent of the Affordable Care Act, saying that "we have more to fear from the potential of the Affordable Health Care for America Act passing than we do from any terrorist right now in any country." In 2022, Foxx voted against the Respect for Marriage Act to codify same-sex and interracial marriage rights federally.

I don't wish her well. I can't.

I won't give the satisfaction of giving a racist the respect. All I can say is that she survived.