Bean soup has been offered on the U.S. Senate dining room menu every day since 1903. Rating: True (About this rating?) Context: For one day in 1943, the kitchen ran out of the soup during a bean ...

“There’s a room here in the Senate named after Strom Thurmond ... Booker asked a few hours before breaking Thurmond’s record. “All of us have to answer that question.” ...

For one day in 1943, the kitchen ran out of the soup during a bean shortage in the midst of World War II. For more than a century, bean soup has essentially been on the menu of the U.S. Senate ...