Alex Gangitano at The Hill last year:
The famous candy desk on the Senate floor is getting restocked on Friday after hungry senators diminished the supply during the early days of the impeachment trial.
Since the 114th Congress, the desk has belonged to Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.), who stocks it with candy for colleagues. The tradition started in 1965 with then-Sen. George Murphy (R-Calif.).
Toomey’s communication director wrote in an email to reporters that Hersey’s, which is headquartered in Pennsylvania, sent “reinforcements that have just been delivered to Senator Toomey’s office (248 Russell) this morning.”
In my own version of this tradition, I have had the candy door. When sorta-normal life resumes sometime later this year, visit 232 Kravis, and sample the cup of candy that I have clipped to the metal slot.
I relaxed social distancing guidelines for my friend:
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