Roll Call writes about an awfully-short-lived intern:

An intern in Rep. Phil English’s (R-Pa.) office may have broken the world’s record for shortest time on the job, her budding career ruined by a marijuana arrest. ... The intern lasted all of two-and-a-half hours on her first day at work in English’s office last Thursday. ... [When the intern and the staffer who was escorting her] reached the security checkpoint connecting the Cannon House Office Building to the Capitol, they put their purses on the X-ray belts and stepped through the metal detectors. Inside the intern’s purse, police officers spotted a small wooden box containing a little pipe - and a little something to smoke. As the police report put it, it was a "green leafy substance" and "paraphernalia."

I'm almost guaranteed to have a more illustrious career on the Hill than she did!

(That same story also contains a reference to a Congressional debate between Pete Sessions and Martin Frost, wherein Sessions said: "I believe the opportunity to be before the World Affairs Council, who have a very serious outlook on the world, that what we should discuss tonight are the issues and those opportunities that lay ahead of America, and certainly us here in Dallas on a moving forward basis as we approach the world with world affairs." Well put, Pete. Well put.)