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Heard on the Hill This Week: The Saga of the Student Painting Heist

By Thomas McKinless and Alex Gangitano

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Throughout a week filled with heated confirmation hearingsand a late-night vote-a-rama, one story continuously dogged Roll Call’s Heard on the Hill reporter Alex Gangitano: some lawmakers kept taking down a controversial student painting in the Cannon tunnel. Watch the video for a play-by-play from Gangitano.Update: The painting was ruled to be in violation of House Office Building Commission rulesand will be taken down after the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend.

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