Did he really eat dinner with Frist?
Along with a few more:
Other senators at the dinner included Kit Bond (R-Mo.), Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.), Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) Ben Nelson (D-Neb)
I think it had been planned for a time as a social outing. There was a thread or article mentioning it on FR last Fri or Sat and I think one of the Senators cooked the ducks.