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Reindeer Sausage, Cocaine With Your Spouse and Throwing the Softball Game: Congressional Hits and Misses

By Thomas McKinless
Posted June 22, 2018 at 4:37pm

By Thomas McKinless

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While female members of Congress geared up to face the press in the annual Congressional Softball Game, Sen. John Kennedy offered a hypothetical scenario in a committee hearing: why can’t he and his spouse do cocaine in the privacy of their own home? Also, Sen. Dan Sullivan discussed Alaskan delicacies on the chamber floor. Thumbnail photo: Sens. David Perdue, Ron Johnson and John Kennedy wait in the U.S. Senate Radio & Television Correspondents Gallery before a news conference. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

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