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By Robert Matson
Posted June 4, 2020 at 7:00am

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Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., conducts a news conference in the Capitol Visitor Center after a House Republican Conference meeting on Tuesday.

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House Speaker Mike Johnson, Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell hand medals to family members of the servicemembers killed in the 2021 terrorist attack at the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, during a Congressional Gold Medal ceremony in the Capitol Rotunda on Tuesday.

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