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CINCINNATI — U.S. Rep. Jean Schmidt of Ohio suffered broken ribs and vertebrae when she was struck by a car while jogging last week, but the damage wasn’t discovered until after she fainted from pain on an overseas trip, her spokesman said Monday.
The Republican congresswoman was heading to a weekend fact-finding visit to Afghanistan when severe pain caused her to pass out while the plane was landing in Germany. A hospital examination then found the breaks in two ribs and two vertebrae, spokesman Bruce Pfaff said. Schmidt, 56, flew back to Ohio and was resting Monday, he said.
