Congressional Hits and Misses: Week of September 15 (Video)

By JM Rieger

Posted September 19, 2014 at 6:47pm

With Congress set to leave for seven weeks, members spent their final work week forgetting names, talking baseball and discussing the bad food at their uncle’s house.

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