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Texts, Baseball Bombshells and Snapper Fish: Congressional Hits and Misses

By Thomas McKinless
Posted July 13, 2018 at 5:28pm

By Thomas McKinless

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It was a busy couple of days on Capitol Hill this week, with the blitz to get to know Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh in full swing, plus a House hearing on the 2016 texts of embattled FBI agent Peter Strzok and Speaker Paul D. Ryan talking about his car getting eaten by woodchucks. Thumbnail photo: Speaker Paul D. Ryan talks with staff as he walks to his weekly press conference in the Capitol on Thursday, July 12, 2018. (Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

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