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Junior Journalists Probe House Leaders on ‘Take Your Child to Work Day’

By Bian Elkhatib
Posted April 26, 2018 at 5:21pm

By Bian Elkhatib

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Speaker Paul D. Ryan and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi fielded questions at their weekly press conferences from a tough crowd — kids. As has become a bit of an annual tradition on Take Your Child to Work Day, the leaders saved time during the conferences to answer kids’ questions on gun control, the national debt and more.

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