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GOP Reps Pick Tea Party Rally Over National-Security Votes

Several Republican members of Congress yesterday blew off close votes on the Patriot Act to attend Michele Bachmann's Tea Party rally against health-care reform. ...full story at digg

from digg on Sat, Nov 07 2009

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