Milk: It does the world's greatest deliberative body good.
As the second day of the impeachment trial of Donald Trump rolled on, the dairy drink made a small splash in the chamber of the US Senate.Late in the afternoon on Wednesday, Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton, a Republican, was seen downing two glasses at his desk, in between bites of chocolate. Directly across from Cotton's desk North Carolina GOP Sen. Richard Burr was sipping from his own glass of milk -- delivered by Senate pages -- as Democratic House managers delivered their opening arguments.
"There was no medicine for pectic ulcer disease so people would drink milk and so the senators were allowed to drink milk because they had ulcers," he said.All this was news to some of the Senate's more senior members. When asked by CNN if in his 45 years in the Senate he had ever ordered milk to his seat on the floor, Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy, a Democrat, looked surprised."I didn't know that," Leahy said."But I'm new here."As he spoke, Republican Sen.
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