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Frist Folks Freak

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.

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Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta testify at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing Wednesday.
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