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Politicians and Their Preacher Problems

By Madison Powers and CQ Guest Columnist

Posted March 27, 2008 at 12:00am

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Madison Powers is Senior Research Scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University. His columns appear regularly in CQ Politics every Thursday.

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