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Overheard: Amy Klobuchar’s Dream Date

By Jason Dick
Posted May 20, 2015 at 1:46pm

“I look to my right, Harry Reid. I look to my left, Mitch McConnell. I know: Every girl’s dream, right?”  

— Sen. Amy Klobuchar, describing her time in the presiding officer’s chair on New Year’s Eve 2012, as the fiscal cliff neared.  


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