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House Stages Its First Partisan Brawl of Year

By Jennifer Bendery
Roll Call Staff
Jan. 6, 2009, 5:04 p.m.

Despite vows of bipartisanship just hours earlier by party leaders, the House passed its first bill of the 111th Congress in an atmosphere charged with partisanship and critical attacks.

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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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