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An Obama Sighting

By Roll Call Staff
Posted May 23, 2008 at 3:22pm

At center, 12-year-old Briana Reid (left) and 14-year-old Ciera Perkins of Houston react to seeing Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) arrive at the Capitol for votes on Thursday. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) also returned to Capitol Hill on Thursday, as the Senate voted on the Iraq War supplemental spending bill and the farm bill.

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