Congressional Hits and Misses: Week of July 28

By JM Rieger

Posted August 4, 2014 at 12:46pm

As cell phones, rhetorical questions and Chinese drywall graced the House and Senate floor, some members prepped for “summer vacation” while others just could not wait to get to Waffle House.

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