U.S. Rep. Virginia Foxx (D-NC) is recovering after a fall at the marble staircase outside the U.S. House chamber. On Friday, Foxx reportedly went up the stairs to talk to her

WASHINGTON, D.C. (WNCN) — North Carolina’s longest-serving congressional representative suffered a fall at the U.S. Capitol Friday. According to her office, Rep. Virginia Foxx slipped while walking down the marble staircase outside the U.S House chamber. She had walked up the staircase to speak with her family in the gallery.

Foxx, who chairs the House Education Committee, reportedly fell on a staircase on the GOP side of the Capitol shortly after the House voted to re-elect Rep. Mike Johnson as speaker of the House. The congresswoman,