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Patriot Games: GOP Reps Pick Tea Party Rally Over National-Security Votes

Zachary Roth | November 6, 2009, 12:29PM

When it's a choice between strengthening the Patriot Act, or showing up for the Tea Party Patriots, what's a GOP lawmaker to do? We'll give you one guess...

Several Republican members of Congress yesterday blew off votes on the signature anti-terror legislation of the post 9/11 era to attend Michele Bachmann's Tea Party rally against health-care reform.

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Topics: House Judiciary, Jim Jordan, Louie Gohmert, Michele Bachmann, Patriot Act, Randy Forbes, Steve King, Tea Parties, Teabaggers, Ted Poe, Trent Franks