Lawmaker gives birth to baby boy
From Times Wire Reports
Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.) became the first member of Congress in more than a decade to give birth when her son was born at Bethesda Naval Hospital over the weekend.
The baby was four weeks premature but was said to be doing well.
He weighed 5 pounds, 9 ounces and was in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit to address minor complications, said Rodgers spokeswoman Jill Strait.
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