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Hill Climbers: From a Twister of Fate to Hill Life

Joplin Tornado Gave NRSC Staffer a Push to Try Life in the Nation’s Capital

By Kate Tummarello
Roll Call Staff
Nov. 28, 2011, Midnight

A tornado was all the impetus Angela Zirkelbach needed to move to Washington, D.C. The new staff assistant for the National Republican Senatorial Committee was working in Joplin, Mo., when the city was struck in May by a devastating tornado.

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May 24, 2012

Sen. Scott Brown arrives in the Capitol via the Senate subway for votes on the Food and Drug Administration reauthorization bill on Thursday.

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