Reuters Republican representative Joe Wilson a senior member of the Foreign Affairs committee collapsed at an event on Tuesday and was rushed to hospital his office said the official xprofile for Wilson 77 wrote a message that said the congressman was taken ill and is being evaluated at a local hospital in Washington DC Wilson's son Alan Wilson the Attorney General of South Carolina wrote on his xprofile that doctors have confirmed to us that he has experienced stroke like symptoms I was able to speak with him moments ago and I am incredibly thankful that he is stable and being monitored by medical professionals he added Wilson fell ill as he was sitting in the front row of a celebration of Ukraine's Independence Day at Ukraine house in Washington's diplomatic Enclave the Ukrainian ambassador had just started speaking when she stopped and asked for a doctor Wilson has represented a conservative District in South Carolina since 2001 he became well known in the US in 2009 for shouting you lie at President Barack Obama during a joint session of Congress reporting by Jonathan land in Washington and Brad Brooks in Colorado editing by Steven coats