Heard on the Hill: Paranoid, Much?

• By Emily Heil and Elizabeth Brotherton
• Roll Call Staff
• June 22, 2009, Midnight

That kooky Rep. Dan Burton is continuing to champion an unlikely cause: wrapping the House chamber in a protective bubble. The Indiana Republican — who once famously tried to prove that former Clinton administration official Vince Foster’s death was not a suicide by re-enacting his version of it in his backyard using a pumpkin and a pistol — is again pressing the wacky idea of erecting a shield to protect Congress.