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Sen. Joe Donnelly (D-Ind.) has only officially held office in the Senate for three days, but he’s already taking part in a popular congressional ritual: the friendly sports wager.

Iowa is not the only state familiar with sculpting butter, as Rep. Glenn Thompson (R-Pa.) proved on Monday.

Thompson, who previously told The Hill about his particular love of tweeting Pennsylvania scenery, tweeted a photo of 1,000 pounds — according to him — of Pennsylvania butter.

The group is using the domain to urge supporters to lobby their senators to block Hagel's confirmation for Defense secretary.

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) thinks Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin would have called former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson and Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt “useful idiots.”

He tweeted as much on Monday, as Richardson and Schmidt arrived in North Korea on a controversial private tour. Their visit to the closed country is not officially sanctioned, and McCain apparently thinks it will function largely as a demonstration of sympathy toward leadership of the often-volatile country.

Richardson and Schmidt arrive in North Korea today - Lenin used to call them "useful idiots"

— John McCain (@SenJohnMcCain) January 7, 2013

Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.) had dinner with movie producer-director Brett Ratner, a fellow Miami native, on Sunday night.

W/Brett Ratner, director of Tower Heist, Rush Hour, X-Men, who was honored by Hebrew Academy! yfrog.com/odo91pij

— Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (@RosLehtinen) January 7, 2013

Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.) joked that he joined a large number of Twitter users in settling in for Sunday night's third-season premiere of period drama "Downton Abbey."

Ok. Downtown Abbey season three starting. Expect no tweets for an hour.

— Jim Himes (@jahimes) January 7, 2013

Himes signed off Twitter for the night shortly after, but did not keep his vow of silence for the episode - which was actually two hours long. He sent one more tweet a few minutes later.

A changing of the guard happened Friday in tweets exchanged by Texas’s newest senator, Ted Cruz (R), and the outgoing lawmaker he replaces.

Greatly appreciated and many thanks for your service. “@kaybaileyhutch: Best wishes on your first full day representing Texas! @tedcruz”

— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) January 4, 2013

The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) dispatched multiple “job seekers” with fake resumes to their Democratic counterpart on Friday in order to make a point about high unemployment.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) invited interested campaign staff to drop off their resumes at the Capitol Hill headquarters on Friday, and the NRCC accepted the opportunity to print up fake resumes for “Julia,” a fictional woman created by President Obama’s reelection campaign.

.@dccc heard you're having a job fair today. Here's a candidate: ow.ly/gxMCq #TheRealJulia

— NRCC (@NRCC) January 4, 2013

The map of Ohio in Sen. Sherrod Brown's (D-Ohio) office has a new pin for New Concord courtesy of former astronaut John Glenn this week.

Brown tweeted a photo on Friday.

John Glenn stopped by DC office & pinned his hometown, New Concord. You can pin your hometown as well when you visit twitter.com/SenSherrodBrow…

— Sherrod Brown (@SenSherrodBrown) January 4, 2013

The White House sent nearly 3,000 tweets in 2012, according to a post on the official blog this week.