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This just in: Sen. Tom Cotton buys and eats birthday cake EVEN WHEN IT’S NOT HIS BIRTHDAY. See this exchange with the New York Times below: 

You have been described as having very little appetite for frivolity. Do you have any guilty pleasures? I run a lot every morning.
That sounds neither guiltynor pleasurable. But I do it so I canindulge in the guilty pleasure of eating birthday cake.
Every day? Most days, with ice cream. Early on, when my wife and I weredating, we went to the grocery store, and I told her that sometimes I just buybirthday cakes, and I eat them. And she said: “Really? I do, too.”
Even if it’s not somebody’sbirthday? Yes. She went to the grocery store yesterday and picked up a white birthday cake.

More here: Tom Cotton Eats Birthday Cake Almost Every Day

Photo: iStockphoto 

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Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) announced she will not seek a 6th term. She’s the longest serving woman in Congress. She was first elected to the House in 1976, and has served in the Senate since 1987. 

“Do I spend my time raising money or raising hell to meet your day-to-day needs?” she said at today’s announcement. 

NPR’s Jasmine Garsd has more on the two-way blog and Brian Naylor will report on All Things Considered tonight.

Note: Apologies, we could only find a #whiteandgold outfit for that 5th photo.

(Photos: Getty Images

Red - On stage at the DNC, 2012; Orange - With then FBI Director Robert Mueller before a Senate Appropriations Committee meeting, 2012; Yellow - At a Girl Scouts event on Capitol Hill, 2012; Green - With Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Singaporean PM Hsien Loong, 2014; Blue - Leaving a closed-door Senate Select Intelligence Committee meeting, 2013. Purple - Mimicking a raven after a Baltimore Ravens Super Bowl win, 2001.)

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