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Congressional Hits and Misses: Best of Rules Committee

By JM Rieger
Posted December 24, 2015 at 5:01pm

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HOH pays tribute to the House Rules Committee and its proclivity for tangents, broken microphones and heaping praise on its “awesome stenographers.”

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