The House Energy and Commerce Committee burned the midnight oil.

The panel — which has jurisdiction over one of the largest parts of the GOP’s “big, beautiful bill” — held an around-the-clock markup this week, kicking off the action at 2 p.m. on Tuesday and continuing through the night before finally wrapping up at roughly 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday.

The 26.5 hour confab was not the panel’s longest. That distinction belongs to a 2017 markup of the Republicans’ bill to repeal ObamaCare under the first Trump administration, which ran for 27 hours. But the marathon markup had all the trappings of the previous endurance contest, featuring waves of emergency takeout, loads of caffeine and plenty of grumpy lawmakers who sought unique ways to make it through the gauntlet with their wits intact.

For Rep. Richard Hudson (R-N.C.), that meant leaning heavily on fruit, caffeine and nicotine.

“I’ve had four Celsius,” Hudson said. “I’m on my third can of Zyn.”

Rep. Kat Cammack (R-Fla.), who is six-and-a-half months pregnant, had to work double duty, shuffling from the Energy and Commerce Committee’s markup in the Longworth building to the Agriculture Committee’s debate in the Rayburn building. How did she keep up? Compression socks — “my fellow mamas-to-be and mamas know........

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