Congressional Hits and Misses: Best of the Rules Committee – Roll Call

Congressional Hits and Misses: Best of the Rules Committee

Sessions likes to thank the committee's "awesome stenographers." (Al Drago/CQ Roll Call File Photo)

By JM Rieger

Posted December 24, 2015 at 12:12pm

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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