candy senator. the current one is republican pat toomey. it is stocked with all sorts of candy native to his home state, including hershey s the chocolate and gertrude hawk candy barts. the placement of the candy desk is key to the whole thing. it is next to the door most used by senators as they come in and out of the senate floor. that s pat toomey s desk. packed with candy. that s the candy desk. hold that thought. today, the center of the political universe shifted about 400 mile to the north and to the east from washington d.c. to boston, massachusetts. it s not often that president obama and vice president biden travel to events together. today they were both in attendance for the dedication of the ted kennedy institute, just outside of boston, where massachusetts senator ted kennedy passed away in 2009. but before he died, he made his wishes known that if there was going to be some memorial for him, he wanted it to be a place that honored not him, not his own personal achievemen
fellow senators and the tradition stuck. whoever is at desk 24 is the candy senator. the current one is republican pat toomey. it is stocked with all sorts of candy native to his home state, including hershey s the the chocolate and gertrude hawk candy barts. the placement of the candy desk is key to the whole thing. it is next to the door most used by senators as they come in and out of the the senate floor. that s pat toomey s desk. packed with candy. that s the candy desk. hold that thought. today, the center of the political universe shifted about 400 mile to the north and to the east from washington d.c. to boston, massachusetts. it s not often that president obama and vice president biden travel to events together. today they were both in attendance for the dedication of the ted kennedy institute just