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Who Is Steve Scalise?

The Republican congressman from Louisiana, who serves as House majority whip, was shot Wednesday morning in Virginia. His condition is stable and he was said to be in "good spirits" before undergoing surgery.
Source: Andrew Harnik / AP

Updated at 10:19 a.m. ET

Steve Scalise, a Republican congressman from Louisiana, was shot Wednesday morning at a GOP team practice for the annual congressional baseball game. In a statement released roughly two hours after the shooting, his congressional office wrote that he’d been hit in the hip and that his condition is stable. He’d been taken to

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