Frist Folks Freak

• By Mary Ann Akers
• Roll Call Staff
• Dec. 14, 2005, Midnight

Journalists who cover Congress have always known Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist’s chief of staff, Eric Ueland, to be a contemplative, mild-mannered intellectual. Until Tuesday, when, during the Tennessee Republican’s off-camera dugout with reporters, Ueland appeared to blow a gasket over a question about Frist’s sale of stock in HCA Inc., his family’s hospital company.