[War_ooc] [War] Drinking in Congress

[John Penta]

On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 12:39 PM, Michael Downey
<michael.michaeldowney at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm just curious because you could do so in the House of Commons up
> until a few years ago and apparently still can in the British House. I
> just found that very surprising.

The assumption used to be that lawmakers could hold their liquor.

This was in spite of the abundance of evidence to the contrary.:)