So there's been some major engagement news lately. Last week, it was pop star Taylor Swift and football player Travis Kelsey. Then this week, Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey announced he was engaged. You know, last week with Taylor and Travis, they were in this like gorgeous lush garden. This week with Booker, he was in Hawaii.

Of course, in both cases, there were professional photographers to capture it all. And I'm just going to say, this is not how my engagement went down. How about you guys?

Mine did go down with professional photographers abroad. Oh, see, so you could rival Taylor and Booker, I could.

Yeah.

How did you propose to your wife?

I proposed on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, which I thought was like super cool

and original.

And it turns out like a lot of people do that.

It was much less of a brilliant new idea than I had thought.

But this was before the era of promposals and

fancy things. So it was just kind of pretty straightforward. But it's better than your

backyard like Travis did, you know? Yeah. At least it's a beautiful backyard. Yes.

From the newsroom of the Washington Post, this is Post Report's weekly politics roundtable.

I'm Colby Echowitz. It's Friday, September 5th.

I'm joined this week by Naftali Ben David, a senior national political correspondent at the Post.

Fattali, hey.

Hi, good to be here.

And we're also here with Mariana Sotomayor, who covers the House of Representatives

for the Post. Hey, Mariana. Hi. So this week, Congress returned to Washington after a month-long

break. And if President Trump had hoped that a few weeks off would make lawmakers forget all about

the Epstein files, that story picked right back up again. We'll discuss the return of

that saga, as well as other news from Capitol Hill, from a possible government shutdown to the

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