Capitol Lens | ‘The tall and the short’

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Capitol Lens | ‘The tall and the short’

By Bill Clark

Posted April 30, 2025 at 2:25pm

“The tall and the short,” Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden remarks as he poses with former Maryland Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski in the Capitol on Wednesday. Mikulski was visiting to have lunch with a fellow Democrat, Sen. Jon Ossoff of Georgia.

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