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‘They have scurried away with your complicity!’ — Congressional Hits and Misses

Week ending March 31, 2023

Tempers flared this week on Capitol Hill as lawmakers rushed to finish their work before the Easter and Passover recess. Highlights of this episode include a grande exchange of words between Sens. Markwayne Mullin and Bernie Sanders during a Senate hearing with the former CEO of Starbucks, a loud and public debate in the Capitol between Reps. Jamaal Bowman and Thomas Massie over gun violence, chaos erupting during a House Weaponization of the Federal Government hearing over excused witnesses, and more.

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