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Candy, hand slams and trash at the White House: Congressional Hits and Misses

By Thomas McKinless
Posted January 11, 2019 at 8:03pm

By Thomas McKinless

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Lawmakers can’t agree on how a White House meeting went down this week, let alone come up with a plan to end the partial government shutdown. All that in this week’s Hits and Misses, plus Democrats shivering in the cold, dramatic page-turning and a reverse garbage pick-up.

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