Congressional Hits and Misses: Week of Dec. 8 (Video)

By JM Rieger

Posted December 15, 2014 at 1:34pm

With holiday jet fumes in the air, Congress spent its final full week of 2014 on “The Colbert Report,” strategizing for bar fights and telling their favorite Dick Cheney quail hunting stories.

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