Update on a 2009 Politico article which tells of how John Podesta had a job on a farm and did some pig butchering there while at Georgetown law school.

https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/1443931

http://www.politico.com/story/2009/07/john-podesta-a-seasoned-hand-024575?o=2

This was the part from the Politico article:

Talk of pig roasting and slaughter kept popping up during dinner and was the last tale Podesta told before the guests left. To earn money while attending law school at Georgetown, he spent two years working at Turkey Run Farm in McLean, now called the Claude Moore Colonial Farm, an 18th-century re-creation.

He dressed in britches, a blousy linen shirt, floppy hat and homemade shoes and learned how to butcher and roast a pig.

Standing in the kitchen and acting out his role, Podesta explained: “It’s best to do the butchering at 4 a.m., “because pigs should be slaughtered when it is cool, and it takes a long time to roast them. The pig is hauled on a front-end loader in order to split and gut it. It’s most important to slow the pig down by shooting it between the eyes so you can cut its throat. It makes the pig less ornery and a whole lot more cooperative than if you just stick a knife in its throat.”

In homage to these skills, Podesta used to have a picture of a pig on a spit as his screen saver, but his staffers made him get rid of it, because he said: “They couldn’t stand looking into the pig’s eyes during meetings.”

In turns out that Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont was so "moved" by the Politico article that he motioned for it to be entered into the Congressional Record, and it was (Vol. 155, pp. 19129-30), under the heading, "John Podesta's Culinary Skills":

Mr. Leahy. Mr. President, our friend, Marion (sic) Burros, a superb writer on all matters culinary and otherwise, has written a most entertaining profile of John Podesta for Politico.

John Podesta is a friend of decades and someone Marcelle and I admire greatly. It is not only his and his wife Mary's talent in everything from the law to politics, but it is also the Podestas a privileged few see when they are preparing feasts in their District of Columbia home. Watching them is like watching a symphony where the enjoyment continues throughout the evening.

I can think of a number of times we settled all the problems of the world through laughter, food, discussions of our families, and on, in their kitchen. Anyone who doesn't relish such a feast for weeks after has no sense of culinary excellence--and I've never known anyone to leave disappointed.

Mr. President, so others might enjoy the Politico article, I ask unanimous consent that it be printed in the RECORD.

There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in the RECORD, as follows...

...followed by the entire article.