Heard on the Hill: Overheard on the Hill

By Elizabeth Brotherton and Alison McSherry

Posted February 9, 2011 at 5:56pm

“More social than Facebook: The gate at the @USAirways shuttle at LGA. Sit here long enough, you run into everyone.”

— Former White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer on traveling out of LaGuardia Airport in a Wednesday tweet. The George W. Bush administration aide now runs his own sports communications firm in New York.

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