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Congressional Hits and Misses: Best of Ted Poe

By JM Rieger

Posted August 14, 2015 at 4:24pm

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To kick off the 2015 August recess, HOH salutes the Texas member who doesn’t shy away from Vladimir Putin alliterations, Spanish translations or explaining “the way it is.”

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