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Overheard on the Hill

“When God looked down on the Senate, he realized that the senators alone could never keep things running. He said, “I need a caretaker!” So, God made a chief of staff!

Sen. Mike Lee, riffing on an old Paul Harvey bit, in order to honor his departing chief of staff, Spencer Stokes.

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