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Overheard on the Hill

By Neda Semnani
Posted November 28, 2012 at 7:44pm

“We ate lobster to live bagpipe music.”

A reporter describing a trip with Sens. John McCain and Mark Udall to the Halifax International Security Forum in Nova Scotia earlier this month.

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