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Photo of the day: Nelson spotted

By Bill Clark
Posted June 10, 2021 at 1:58pm
(Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

It wasn’t Willie Nelson, or that ’90s twins group Nelson, or even NASA administrator Bill Nelson. But it was former Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Neb., who was spotted talking on his phone while sitting on hearing room chairs stored in the Dirksen hallway on Thursday.

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