‘Cheerio’ on the Senate Floor

By Matthew Fleming

Posted July 21, 2015 at 7:36pm

“Cheerio!”

— Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., both joking about Roberts’ Union Jack necktie, which he wore Tuesday to mark a meeting between senators and members of the British Parliament earlier in the day .

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