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The Senate’s Bipartisan Duo

By Alex Gangitano
Posted March 8, 2016 at 1:57pm

“The only question is whether the country is ready for an all-Catholic ticket.” -Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, joked with reporters in a press scrum on Tuesday that she and Joe Donnelly, D-Ind., have decided to run for president and vice president, respectively, since they were rated the most bipartisan senators in the Lugar Center’s Bipartisan Index released on Monday .  

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