The House of Representatives voted in favor of legislation that would require agencies headed by members of the National Security Council to inform the White House and Congress within 24 hours if their leaders become medically incapacitated.
This legislation, which passed the House in a voice vote on Monday afternoon, is a response to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin’s secretive hospitalization earlier this year.
Austin was taken by ambulance to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Jan. 1 due to complications from a treatment he received in December for prostate cancer. The White House was not notified of Austin’s hospitalization until Jan. 4, while Congress and the public were not informed until a day later, on Jan. 5.
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