Bush Hosts Annual Congressional Picnic [View All]

June 15, 2006, 8:52 PM EDT



WASHINGTON -- President Bush was the host of the annual congressional picnic Thursday at the White House, but it was his chief of staff's band that came close to stealing the show.

"We got some interesting entertainment for you tonight," Bush told lawmakers and their families to the picnic, called "Rodeo on the South Lawn."

"We got some people who can play music and some people who think they can play music," the president said.

The Compassionates, Joshua Bolten's band, and the Second Amendments, a bipartisan congressional band, were the opening acts. The featured entertainment came from Riders in the Sky, professional musicians who played in fancy chaps and Western attire.

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Bush had to find some way to celebrate hitting 2500 KIA.