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Last week the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center finally opened after six years of delays and bloated budgets, and most folks who work on the Hill were glad to have the thing done with at last. At the time, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) remarked that he was especially excited not to have to smell stinky, sweaty tourists waiting to get inside the Capitol anymore.

"My staff tells me not to say this, but I'm going to say it anyway," said Reid in his remarks. "In the summer because of the heat and high humidity, you could literally smell the tourists coming into the Capitol. It may be descriptive but it's true."

Naturally, for daring to state the obvious, Reid came under fire from those who insist that they are the only people on Earth who never sweat and never emit gross body odor when it's hot and sticky.

If you're a press secretary for Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Ok.), today's a good day. Both the Post and the New York Times are running profiles on the senator, affably known as "Dr. No," for his persistent opposition to bills that fund government programs he considers wasteful. Coburn has held up some 80 bills during his tenure, and it's gotten so bad that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) felt compelled to introduce legislation last week that would fund 35 of the programs Coburn has successfully stalled, to the tune of $10 billion. The legislation, officially titled the Advancing America’s Priorities Act, is being called the "Tomnibus" bill.