Representative Ray Barnes of Arizona had "angels hovering over him," according to Speaker Jim Weiers, when he collapsed on the floor of the House in early June and was revived by colleagues, a lobbyist and a 17-year-old page.

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Representative Ray Barnes of Arizona had "angels hovering over him," according to Speaker Jim Weiers, when he collapsed on the floor of the House in early June and was revived by colleagues, a lobbyist and a 17-year-old page. Barnes was not breathing and had no pulse when Ashley Mazur, a page with a nursing assistant certification, Representative Ted Carpenter, a retired Phoenix firefighter, and Representative Cheryl Chase, a registered nurse, began mouth to mouth resuscitation and compressions on him. A lobbyist who is a former paramedic and Representative Colette...