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Congressional Hits and Misses: Week of September 8

By JM Rieger
Posted September 12, 2014 at 3:10pm

After a five-week recess, members returned to discuss the “crisis with ISIS” and Dick Cheney while reminding C-SPAN viewers to “tweet, tweet, tweet.”

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