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Congressional Hits and Misses: Week of June 2

By JM Rieger
Posted June 6, 2014 at 11:49am

Senators kicked off the first week of June asking for reporters’ names, analyzing the “Wizard of Oz” and taking baths to clean themselves of sewer waste.

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