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Heard on the Hill: If Biden Had a Hammer

By Emily Heil and Elizabeth Brotherton
Roll Call Staff
Oct. 7, 2008, Midnight

In the vice presidential debate last week, Sen. Joseph Biden tried to show his membership card for the “Joe Six-Pack” club by boasting of spending “a lot of time” in his local Home Depot.

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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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