The Inspector General of the Architect of the Capitol officially closed an investigation into former Speaker of the House and man currently happy he’s dealing with that shit anymore Kevin McCarthy for a set of eight wooden gavels McCarthy requested the AOC make from trees taken down from Capitol grounds during the brief time he was Speaker.
Roll Call reports that the IG found that while the request seems odd, it’s not all that uncommon for members to ask for gavels to be made from felled campus trees. Such requests “go back for years,” the AOC/IG found, although the probe noted that using the carpentry craftsmen employed by the Architect’s office to make the gavels is not the best use of taxpayer dollars.