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10:20 PM, Mar 6, 2013 • By DANIEL HALPER

Senator Ted Cruz, joining in support of Rand Paul's filibuster, said today was the first day he had the chance to speak on the Senate floor. "It don't get no better than this," Cruz said, quoting a beer commercial:

"Today is the first day I have ever had the extraordinary privilege of speaking on the floor of the Senate," said Cruz. "And in my first time to speak on the floor of the Senate, I found myself being given the chance to read from Travis's letter from the Alamo. As I observed walking off the floor of the Senate, as they say in the beer commercial, 'It don't get no better than this.' So I thank the senator from Kentucky for giving me the opportunity to be welcomed to the floor of the senate and having a chance to stand with him fighting for liberty."

7:13 AM, Oct 25, 2012 • By MICHAEL WARREN

Massachusetts Senate candidate and Harvard law professor Elizabeth Warren knocked back a pint at Boston's legendary Doyle's Cafe, and a local TV news crew asked her what beers she likes.

"I'm a Sam Adams fan," said the ebullient Democrat. "I'm a Michelob Ultra fan. I'm a Bud Light fan as well. I really go for the whole range."

"So none of this white wine stereotyping for you?" the reporter asks.

"Not me," Warren responds. Watch the video below:

2:31 PM, Sep 4, 2012 • By DANIEL HALPER

President Obama made a campaign stop to a fire station and hand-delivered a case of beer. Via the pool report:

1:28 PM, Aug 14, 2012 • By DANIEL HALPER

A surprising anecdote from a White House pool report this morning:

Campaign official also offers up that potus was talking about white house beer, which apparently the white house brews, she said, and one cafe patron requested a bottle, so potus sent out to Ground Force One and gave him one.

And, in a subsequent pool report from press secretary Jay Carney's gaggle, we get this:

8:52 AM, Aug 14, 2012 • By DANIEL HALPER

In Iowa last night, a chant of "four more beers!" broke out for President Obama, and he offered to buy beers for 10 people, but not for a supporter of Mitt Romney. Via the pool report:

7:30 AM, Jul 14, 2011 • By MARK HEMINGWAY

No, Rupert Murdoch does not pay negative income taxes: "Oh David Cay Johnston, You’ve Done It Again! Reuters Nixes Serial Misreporter’s Debut Column"

Drink up!

12:14 PM, Apr 5, 2010 • By MARY KATHARINE HAM

We're all anti-statist home micro-brewers, now.

Gov. Tim Pawlenty signed a bill Thursday that makes it legal for beverages to be brewed in the basement of a building.

Early laws prohibited people from brewing in a basement because of concerns about the moisture and mildew often found there.

This applies to brewing everything from drink syrups and carbonated drinks to bottled beer.