Spratt in Early Stages of Parkinson’s

Via The Associated Press, Rep. John Spratt (D-S.C.), the chairman of the House Budget Committee who just this week announced his intention to run for a 15th term, says that he’s in the early stages of Parkinson’s disease. The symptoms, he told the AP, are “really more of a nuisance than anything else, at least at this point.”

The news comes a week after Spratt was named a member of the White House deficit reduction commission.