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Harman: Despite AIPAC Flap, I Can Still Make Lame Puns

It’s all in good fun — but is an alleged quid pro quo with a suspected Israeli agent really a laughing matter?

CQ reports that Jane Harman’s office plans to compete in a road race tomorrow, sponsored by the American Council of Life Insurers. The Harman team’s name: “Tapped Out.”

The California Democrat, of course, spent last week dealing with a report that she was caught on a government wiretap offering to lobby the Bush administration to ease up on the AIPAC spying case, in exchange for political help.

“We still have a sense of humor,” a Harman spokesman told CQ. And what a sense of humor it is.

AIPAC, Jane Harman, Wiretapping

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