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A weekend all-nighter, fake tweets and a Grassley impression: Congressional Hits and Misses

Week of Oct. 25, 2020

By Thomas McKinless
Posted October 30, 2020 at 11:35am

While senators griped about being in Washington over the weekend, Sen. Charles E. Grassley was just upset he wouldn’t be back in Iowa for #CornWatch.

Meanwhile, Sen. Roger Wicker had trouble connecting with Mark Zuckerberg and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy dreamed about Speaker Nancy Pelosi handing him the speaker’s gavel following the election.

[ Also watch: Political stunts, difficult masks and AOC Among Us: Congressional Hits and Misses ]

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