WASHINGTON—Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas), a former Navy SEAL who lost his right eye in an explosion in Afghanistan, said on Saturday he will take a month-long leave of absence from Congress after emergency surgery for a detaching retina in his other eye.
“The surgery went well, but I will be effectively blind for about a month,” the Texas Republican wrote in a statement on Twitter. He said his congressional offices will remain open but apologized to constituents for being “pretty much off the grid for the next few weeks.”
