Headlines Aside, GOP Still Holds Strategic Advantage on the Hill

By David Winston
Roll Call Contributing Writer

June 7, 2005, 12 a.m.

Last month, the partisan jockeying in Washington was more high-stakes poker than horse race; and a good case can be made that when Congress returns this week from its Memorial Day recess, Republicans come back to Capitol Hill still holding the stronger hand.

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