Politics | Rand Paul Rand Paul Has Part of Lung Removed Senator has another surgery related to 2017 attack By Evann Gastaldo Posted Aug 5, 2019 10:20 AM CDT Copied This March 5, 2019, file photo shows Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File) Another senator is having medical issues: Rand Paul had lung surgery over the weekend, and he announced Monday on Twitter that "unfortunately, I will have to limit my August activities" as he recuperates, but "I should be able to return to the Senate in September." The senator's lung was damaged during the 2017 attack by his neighbor, and he had the damaged portion removed at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn., USA Today reports. Earlier this year, Paul went to Canada for hernia surgery related to the assault. (Mitch McConnell is working from home after breaking his shoulder.) Read These Next He heckled President Trump, is now $430K richer. A Cape Cod car theft didn't go as planned. 2 GOP senators change their minds on Trump's war powers. Officials say ICE agent who shot Renee Good had internal bleeding. Report an error