Ailing Kanjorski Released from Hospital

WASHINGTON – Congressman Paul Kanjorski, the chief sponsor of HR 1151 and the fledgling CU Regulatory Improvements Act, was discharged yesterday afternoon from Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, after undergoing successful triple bypass surgery on March 19. Kanjorski's cardiac doctors expect that he should be able to return to work in mid-April, following the Congressional spring recess. The recovery will temporarily slow progress on CURIA, which Kanjorski introduced in the House just three days before entering the hospital, because he must personally add any new co-sponsors to the 11 others already signed on. CUNA said as many as a dozen others are ready to add their names to the credit union measure, adding momentum to get a hearing on the proposal. Kanjorski's surgery was routinely scheduled as a result of diagnostic testing and was not the result of a heart attack.