Congressional Hits and Misses: Week of June 16 – Roll Call

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Congressional Hits and Misses: Week of June 16

By JM Rieger

Posted June 30, 2015 at 12:30pm

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As summer approaches, members turned to flavored e-cigarettes, arithmetic and CIA analysts on acid to make it through the heat of the week.

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