An aide to Dick Cheney says the former vice president is in George Washington Hospital after experiencing chest pains.
Cheney's assistant, Peter Long, said in a statement late Monday that the 69-year-old Cheney was resting comfortably and his doctors were evaluating the situation.
Cheney, who was George W. Bush's vice president, has a history of heart problems and uses a pacemaker.
In 2008, doctors restored a normal rhythm to his heart with an electric shock. It was the second time in less than a year that Cheney had experienced and been treated for an atrial fibrillation, an abnormal rhythm involving the upper chambers of the heart.
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