“I’ll be seeing you in all the old familiar places,” goes the song by crooner Billie Holiday.
Those who toil in Congress certainly saw a lot of old friends in the old familiar places at the U.S. Capitol recently.
First, there was Vice President-elect and Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio.
Vance hasn’t even been a senator for two years. Yet he’s now bound for the vice presidency at age 40. He’ll be the youngest vice president since John Breckenridge worked alongside President James Buchanan in 1857.
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But Vance hasn’t been spotted at the Capitol much since President-elect Trump drafted him as his running mate in July. Vance was at the Capitol in June for votes. Gone for Fourth of July. Then selected as running mate. Then nowhere near the Capitol for the August recess. Vance only dipped into the Capitol for a doctor’s appointment with the attending physician to Congress in September. Then there was the election.
Vance didn’t parachute…
