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Cutting Room Floor: Card Check

By Roll Call Staff
Posted May 1, 2009 at 3:04pm

[IMGCAP(1)]In his weekly news conference in the Capitol last week, House Minority Leader John Boehner held up his Congressional voting card, saying it was “the most dangerous credit card in the history of the world— because of the Democrats’ spending.

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