Heard on the Hill: Overheard on the Hill

By Neda Semnani

Posted June 1, 2011 at 6:47pm

“I got more Twitter followers than Michele Bachmann! Yep. I finally did.”

— Rep. Anthony Weiner in the Speaker’s Lobby on Tuesday night, as his number of Twitter followers passed those of Rep. Michele Bachmann in the wake of a controversy over a salacious image posted to his Twitter account.

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