Congressional Hits and Misses: Week of April 20, 2015 (Video)

By JM Rieger

Posted April 24, 2015 at 11:37am

As Nancy Pelosi and John A. Boehner smooched, members spent the remainder of the workweek protecting turtle passwords, choking up over Sam Houston and threatening to drop activists’ asses.

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