“We call that lagniappe in Louisiana.” That’s how Minority Whip Steve Scalise described getting to play baseball on a major league field while fostering relationships with his congressional colleagues along the way. “Lagniappe, it means a little something extra.”

Two years after the 2017 shooting at the GOP baseball practice where Scalise was critically wounded, the Louisiana Republican and his home-state colleague Rep. Cedric L. Richmond, star pitcher for the Democrats, reflect on their long bipartisan friendship that started in the state legislature and continued into Congress.