Keep some distance … from Congress: Congressional Hits and Misses – Roll Call

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Keep some distance … from Congress: Congressional Hits and Misses

Week of March 16, 2020

By Thomas McKinless

Posted March 20, 2020 at 11:23am

Podiums were sanitized and reporters kept at arms-length this week as Congress continued to grapple with the coronavirus pandemic. Sen. Mitt Romney was welcomed into the Yang Gang, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo quarreled with his brother on live TV and former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger showed off his quarantine companions, Whisky and Lulu.

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