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Heard on the Hill This Week: Al Franken’s Hotdish and the Tallest Senator in Modern History

By Alex Gangitano
Posted March 10, 2017 at 2:47pm

By Alex Gangitano and Thomas McKinless

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This week Roll Call’s Heard on the Hill reporter Alex Gangitano checked out a Minnesota cooking competition hosted by Sen. Al Franken. In addition to sampling some North Star State “hotdishes,” Alex sat down with new Sen. Luther Strange, the tallest senator in modern history. [ ]

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