Bourbon bout: Chuck Schumer and Mitch McConnell lightheartedly spar over Brooklyn whiskey

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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., poked fun at Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., Monday when he presented McConnell with a bottle of bourbon whiskey aged at a Brooklyn-based distillery during a joint appearance at a conference in Kentucky.

“Now there’s another thing you might not realize we have in common: bourbon,” Schumer started, referring to some of the similarities he shared with his Senate colleague.

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