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Published 6/29/2009 at Scientific American - Environment
In a video posted on YouTube, Congressman Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) looks up from a 1300-page stack of papers and says, “I’m on page 587, reading about ‘Alternative Metrics and Threshold Review’ and I’ve got many more hours to go before the vote and a couple hundred more pages.” [More]
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