Pizza Toppings, Grandpuppies and Quails on Cocaine: Congressional Hits and Misses

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Pizza Toppings, Grandpuppies and Quails on Cocaine: Congressional Hits and Misses

By Thomas McKinless

Posted February 9, 2018 at 8:17pm

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With an eight-hour House floor speech from Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and a budget vote-delaying diatribe against government spending — on quail sexuality studies no less — from Sen. Rand Paul, it’s been a very long week on Capitol Hill.

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