‘They have scurried away with your complicity!’ — Congressional Hits and Misses - Roll Call

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‘They have scurried away with your complicity!’ — Congressional Hits and Misses

Week ending March 31, 2023

By Chris Hale

Posted March 31, 2023 at 6:20pm

Tempers flared this week on Capitol Hill as lawmakers rushed to finish their work before the Easter and Passover recess. Highlights of this episode include a grande exchange of words between Sens. Markwayne Mullin and Bernie Sanders during a Senate hearing with the former CEO of Starbucks, a loud and public debate in the Capitol between Reps. Jamaal Bowman and Thomas Massie over gun violence, chaos erupting during a House Weaponization of the Federal Government hearing over excused witnesses, and more.

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