Overheard on the Hill

(Chris Maddaloni/CQ Roll Call)
(Chris Maddaloni/CQ Roll Call)
Posted April 26, 2012 at 12:00am

“I’m not so sure about these things. We were on a CODEL to Cuba, and we had to give our phones to Secret Service in Florida, and when we came back, we all got our phones back. It was like in ‘Lord of the Rings’: ‘my precious, my precious …’”

— Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) said, unprompted, about his smartphone.