For a Record: Keeper of a zoo

That’s Mitch McConnell’s happy face. (Win McNamee, Getty Images)

As one confidence ensure used to wish us during a finish of each week, fanciful Friday, For a Record peeps! While we were sleeping, the Senate upheld that two-year bill understanding everyone’s been articulate about (really!)

Let’s get down to a headlines.

Paul Ryan, Speaker of a House*

We usually now usually satisfied that a Tear-o-meter doesn’t unequivocally request to Paul Ryan. (Andrew Harnik, AP)

*To a balance of Les Miserables’ “Master of a House”

Paul Ryan strictly became @SpeakerRyanUSA TODAY’s Erin Kelly has more

Related: On a effusive Speaker John Boehner Tear-o-meter, we peg the “long, delayed struggle”

Speaking of Congress, Marco ain’t going anywhere usually yet

That’s SENATOR Marco Rubio to you. (Darren McCollester, Getty Images)

Marco Rubio’s absenteeism from a Senate building isn’t being looked on too pleasantly (see: his open break-up with Jeb(!) Bush a other night). And he keeps angry about his job. So because not usually leave and concentration on his presidential run full-time? His debate has no approach response. But we consider it’s flattering clear: Quitters can’t be winners. That’s substantially on a fender plaque somewhere. USA TODAY’s Ledyard King explains what’s happening

2012 is so final season

Sweater vest not pictured. (Charlie Neibergall, AP)

Somehow, it has already been nearly 4 years given a domestic fashionistas swooned over Rick Santorum and his sweater vests. That initial one he wore in Dec 2011 worked debate sorcery (as did a debate he done while he was wearing it); he won a Iowa caucuses weeks later. So, given that he’s polling during about 2 percent, will Santorum mangle out his signature wardrobe object now that autumn is here? Yes… but not to a grade he did final time: “I consider we competence usually mangle it out usually for special occasions.” His daughters are apparently What Not to Wear-ing him and giving him a “new style.” We demeanour brazen to a existence TV show. The Des Moines Register’s William Petroski has a lowdown

More from a debate trail

• Jeb(!) swears he is not apropos Jeb(!?) (USA TODAY)
• We’ve swum in a Chesapeake Bay, and we determine with O’Malley: ‘Scars’ is a right word (Des Moines Register)
• CNBC might have been a debate’s loser… (USA TODAY)
• But during slightest it won in a ratings? (USA TODAY)
• So maybe banishment behind isn’t going to work for Kasich after all (Cincinnati Enquirer)

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