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Reid's Move to Circumvent Lands Bill UC Angers Republicans

By John Stanton
Roll Call Staff
Feb. 8, 2008, 5:32 p.m.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has circumvented a formal unanimous consent agreement to move a public lands bill, charging that Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) was using the deal to turn the bill into an election-year effort to score political points against Democrats.

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February 9, 2012

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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