A piece of popcorn almost spelled doom for Rep. Ted Poe.

The Texas Republican was dining alone last Thursday when he began munching on the popcorn that’s typically served before meals at the Capitol Hill Club. That’s when Poe, 64, suddenly started choking at the swanky GOP haunt.

Rep. Matt Salmon (R-Ariz.) was seated for dinner right behind the congressman when he and another diner jumped into action. The pair performed the Heimlich maneuver and gave the ailing lawmaker back blows as they yelled for someone to call 911.

A GOP aide who doubles as a physician also rushed over to help, according to the National Review Online, which was first to report the incident.

Monday afternoon, Rep. Kerry Bentivolio (R-Mich.) had just one job as Speaker pro tem: introduce Del. Eni Faleomavaega (D-A.S.) to speak for five minutes.

Normally, members would struggle over the last name. But in this case, Bentivolio struggled with the U.S. territory he represents.

While the f-bombs fly frequently in the popular HBO show “Veep,” Motion Picture Association of America Chairman and former Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) says cursing wasn’t so common behind his Senate office’s closed doors.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus, who stars as a fictional vice president in the comedy series, is constantly heard throwing out profanity-laced one-liners on the show, which wraps up its second season this week.

So ITK had to know, is there really that much cussing around Capitol Hill?

“Maybe in some offices, not in mine,” Dodd said with a big laugh earlier this year.

“Although I don’t think so,” he continued. “I once asked my staff, having watched ‘Veep,’ did you guys talk like that behind my back or something? They said, ‘Of course not, senator.’ "

Hollywood celebrities are pressing President Obama to honor his pledge to eliminate nuclear weapons ahead of his meeting with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin at the G8 summit in Belfast.

Chelsea Clinton says she has no hand in what her mom writes on Twitter.

Since joining the site last week, Hillary Clinton — who describes herself on her Twitter bio as a “hair icon” and “pantsuit aficionado,” among other things — has racked up nearly half a million followers.

When asked Friday on MSNBC’s “Now with Alex Wagner” whether she was involved with the former first lady and secretary of State’s Twitter account, Clinton, 33, replied, “Oh, gosh. Well I deserve no credit at all on her biography. That was completely her own doing.”

But Clinton says her mom does discuss her tweets with her, telling Wagner during the interview about her work with the Clinton Global Initiative, “She still like treats them all with this like a great kind of, you know, so much thought goes into them.”

SPOTTED: In what sounds like the makings of a new “Odd Couple”-type sitcom, Secretary of State John Kerry and comedian Jim Belushi were both eyed dining at the same restaurant (albeit separately) Thursday night in Washington.

The former senator was seen sitting down for dinner with his wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, at the super swank Blue Duck Tavern. A female companion, along with the ambassador of Kuwait, joined the couple.

Rep. Eliot Engel is sending his sympathies to comedian Stephen Colbert following the death of “The Colbert Report” host’s mother.

The New York Democrat wrote Friday:

Sympathies to @StephenAtHome on the passing of his mother. Mrs. Colbert was a native of #Larchmont & #ny16 is proud to call her 1 of our own

— Eliot Engel (@RepEliotEngel) June 14, 2013

Lorna Elizabeth Tuck Colbert, the 92-year-old mom to Colbert and Elizabeth Colbert Busch — the South Carolina Democrat who lost her bid for a House seat to Rep. Mark Sanford (R) in a May special election — died Wednesday.

Lawmakers took a break from the pressures of Capitol Hill for the 52nd annual fundraiser.

The Democratic lawmakers cruised to their fifth win in a row.