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Senate "Nap Room" Used in All-nighter
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ABC News' Jake Tapper Reports: Freshmen Sens. Bob Casey, D-Pa., and Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., have owned up to catching a few Z's in the Senate nap room (actually the LBJ Room) during the all-night session of the Senate last night. And three-to-four other unidentified senators did as well, according to Democratic leadership aides.
McCaskill was asked at a press conference this afternoon about whether she and Casey used the cots.
"Now listen, did you start a rumor we slept together?" McCaskill joked, to laughter.
She then elaborated on her experience: "I ventured into the LBJ room with some trepidation at about 2:30 last night and I looked around and saw empty cot, empty cot, empty cot, empty cot and then there was one kind of blob in the corner. And I'm trying to figure out, now who is it? Who's sleeping over there, and it was none other than Bob Casey."
She continued: "So, I took a cot on the opposite side of the room, as far away from him as I could possibly get, because it was a little weird, you know, and lay down and I napped a little bit. And then eventually I got up, because I wasn't finding that sleep was coming so I thought if I read, and obviously I couldn't turn on a light in the LBJ room, so I grabbed my pillow and blanket and went back to the Senate lounge. And as I was leaving, I think I woke him up, so I apologize for waking you up after I came in."
Said Casey: "That's a reasonably accurate summary of what happened."
Of no doubt less interest, the Senate Sergeant-at-Arms set up cots in the offices of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., which were used for Leadersleep.
In fact, Democrats are claiming that they charitably lent McConnell that cot.
"While the cots are controlled by the Sergeant-at-Arms, once they were set up in the LBJ room, they were technically under the control of the Majority Leader (he controls access to the LBJ Room)," says Joe Shoemaker, spokesman for Majority Whip Dick Durbin, R-Illinois. "So when Sen. McConnell requested that a cot be set up in his office (as is the tradition with both the Minority and Majority Leaders) he had to either send for another cot from the storage facility in Cheverly (Maryland) or ask Sen. Reid for one of his cots. He asked Sen. Reid. And with love in our hearts and a smile on our faces, we sent him the pick of the litter."
Added Shoemaker: "Noting the Minority Leader's mood on the floor this morning however, I believe he may have gotten up on the wrong side of that cot...but that's just a personal observation."
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When was the last time pizza and communal cots got so much attention?
Posted by: Candadai Tirumalai | Jul 19, 2007 9:25:28 AM
Gotta love that liberal media.
Still not all that liberal.
Posted by: Just another guy | Jul 19, 2007 9:53:07 AM
I am very upset with most of the republican representatives. When the American public votes they are actually hiring the representitives to do a job for them. We hire them to represent us. 70% of Americans are against the Irag war. That would mean that 70% (well over the majority) want out of Iraq. I could go into the whys however my point is that the representatives are hired to represent us. They choose to represent your own agenda. We really do not care what they think about the war. That is their opinion not ours. I respectfully request that they do the job they were hired to do.
REPRESENT THE MAJORITY OF YOUR CONSTITUENTS. STOP THIS INSANITY NOW.
If they do not represent the majority of the people what are they doing there. Shame on them.
If they cannot do the job they were hired to do they should have the grace to step down. If they do not we should fire them.
Sincerely, Glynda Ballinger
Posted by: Glynda Ballinger | Jul 19, 2007 10:27:57 AM
we should clean house , and put new people and new ideas in their along with it. people in the seats are still stuck in their old ways, and children that follow their fathers and relatives in the house of representives are only doing what the elected then didn't get to do. how can you the house of representives allow this man and his company get away with all these lies and muniplation and decietfullness right in the americans eyes and their is nothing we can do. we vote but it don't count. the have fixed the machines where as to , an individual's vote go where they want it to go. clean house and that will get some loyalty to us americans back..we don't count, only our money and that is not much..who will help us americans, we are in the hands of a mad-man and his team..help take care of the main issue the war...do something now..send some of their family members and see how they feel.i know they have sons and daughters. let them feel how it hurts, and hurts us moms and dads, who don't have a blind delegation or a don't care group in the house of representatives, we the american people need help and fast...
Posted by: wilma | Jul 20, 2007 3:56:30 PM
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