$621 Million Visitor's Center Opens So Harry Reid Won't Have to Smell the Tourists

To Harry Reid, $621 million for a Capitol Hill Visitor's Center is money well spent:

The Capitol Visitors Center, which opened this morning, may have tripled its original budget and fallen years behind schedule, but Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid found a silver lining for members of Congress: tourists won't offend them with their B.O. anymore.

"My staff tells me not to say this, but I'm going to say it anyway," said Reid in his remarks. "In the summer because of the heat and high humidity, you could literally smell the tourists coming into the Capitol. It may be descriptive but it's true."

Keeping the unwashed masses from the Congressmen is a high priority.