Stories like John Tower's come along with uncomfortable regularity on Capitol Hill. Hays Gorey knows that. TIME's chief congressional correspondent can't stay away from the beat he first covered more than 20 years ago. Back then, Gorey watched the Senate agonize over passing judgment on another of its own: in the dock in 1967 was Connecticut's Thomas Dodd, eventually censured for a misuse of campaign funds. Now happily back on the Hill after a two- decade hiatus reporting on national politics, Gorey finds Congress is still just as loath to bring down a colleague.
Last Thursday evening Gorey watched it happen...
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