Representative Vito J. Fossella acknowledged on Thursday that he had fathered a daughter, now 3, in an extramarital affair. He declined to address questions regarding his political future, the Associated Press reports.

“My personal failings and imperfections have caused enormous pain to the people I love and I am truly sorry,” Fossella said, quoted by the same source.

Fossella is the only Republican member of Congress from New York City, and he lives in his Staten Island, N.Y., district with his wife and their three children.

According to House Minority Leader John Boehner, Fossella is due to make decisions about his future in a matter of days. “I think Mr. Fossella is going to have some decisions to make over the weekend. And I would hope that, and frankly, expect that this is a decision between he, his family, and his constituents,” Boehner said, quoted by the A.P.

Vito Fossella’s secret life was revealed after he was he was arrested in the Virginia suburbs of Washington for allegedly driving drunk. Policemen declared they stopped him after he drove through a red light. When he was pulled over, Fossella told officers that he was going to see his daughter in the area.

“I have had a relationship with Laura Fay, with whom I have a 3-year-old daughter,” he said in his statement. Fay, a former Air Force lieutenant colonel, got him out of jail after the arrest.

It appears that Fossella has no immediate plans to resign. However, there was little support from leaders of his party for him to remain.

“He's politically dead. The only thing that hasn't happened is the autopsy report hasn't been written,” a professor of politics at Baruch College in New York, Doug Muzzio, said.

Vito Fossella, 43, was elected to Congress in 1997 in a special election in order to replace Republican Susan Molinari, who resigned. His work in Congress shifted dramatically following the September 11, 2001, terror attacks.