WASHINGTON — As Congress was leaving for its August recess, House Republican leader Mitch McConnell said he concurred with the outrage at the verbal assault on teen-age Senate pages by Wisconsin Congressman Derrick Van Orden. It was a rare criticism by the Republican leader against a fellow Republican. “Everybody on this side of the aisle feels exactly the same way,” McConnell said. Van Orden was not present in the House to hear McConnell’s upbraiding. Asked about it later, Van Orden said: “I don’t know what it was because I honestly have not tracked any of this stuff.”
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Earlier: Van Orden attacks teen-age Capitol pages as jackasses