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Mom’s a Maverick, Too

By Mary Ann Akers
Roll Call Staff
Dec. 6, 2006, Midnight

The most popular guest at Sen. John McCain’s (R-Ariz.) bustling media-and-money holiday party Monday night wound up in the hospital. Roberta McCain, the Senator’s 94-year-old mother, fell as she was walking out of the star-studded bash at the Corcoran Gallery of Art and injured her hip.

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Rep. Michele Bachmann, who recently suspended her campaign for the presidency, speaks at the 2012 Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 9.

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