“I find it’s an easy way to network or work across the aisle.”

Sen. Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia. Capito, an honorary co-chair of the first-ever Congressional Pickleball Match, recruited fellow lawmakers to join in a bipartisan game on the National Mall on Thursday. She helped launch a Senate pickleball caucus two years ago, seeing the sport as a way to build relationships around a shared pastime. The exhibition game was part of a larger pickleball weekend organized by Congressional Sports for Charity and the Trust for the National Mall. (Roll Call)