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‘Kavanautical Miles,’ the Chuck E. Cheese Model and TMZ: Congressional Hits and Misses

By Thomas McKinless
Posted August 3, 2018 at 5:10pm

By Thomas McKinless

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While the House ditched Washington for their August recess last week, the Senate stuck around the Capitol debating the scourge of almond milk, gifting personalized Coke bottles and discussing how many “Kavanautical miles” Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s requested documentation would stretch over the Earth. Thumbnail photo: Sen. Orrin Hatch after a news conference showing boxes representing pages of documents to be submitted to the Senate Judiciary Committee on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call).

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