Several Republican senators watching the ongoing impeachment trial of President Trump over the past two days have apparently been taking their mother’s advice to drink their milk. Actually, as The Washington Post reported, there isn’t a rule that permits them to drink milk, but then there also isn’t a rule that forbids them from drinking it, either. Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., told Bloomberg that senators were permitted to drink to keep their ulcers from flaring up. “In the '50s, there was no medicine for ulcers but people would drink milk,” Cassidy said. “So the senators were allowed to drink milk because they had ulcers.”Cassidy’s assertion, however, has come under question, as the calcium in milk causes the stomach to produce more acid and thus agitate an ulcer even further.

Source: Fox News January 22, 2020 23:03 UTC