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Democrats Playing by the Rules?

By Madison Powers and CQ Columnist
Posted February 21, 2008 at 1:00am

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Madison Powers is a Senior Research Scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University. His column appears on CQ Politics every Thursday.

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