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‘You talk too much’— Congressional Hits and Misses

Week ending April 19, 2024

By Chris Hale
Posted April 19, 2024 at 3:53pm

A lawmaker dropped a classic Run-DMC reference at the end of a House Rules markup on Thursday. But that track could apply to a lot this week: at the Senate impeachment proceedings, mispronunciations of “Nevada” and “Raskin” and a presidential candidate’s curious discussion on Gettysburg and Robert E. Lee.

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