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The following podcast contains explicit language.

It's Tuesday, March 15th, 2016 from Slate.

It's the gist I'm Mike Pesca.

So it's on a Minnesota public radio show today, someone called in and said,

while the horse race, why not the issues?

And so I said, damn it, you're right, but I'm not going to answer you here.

I'll rebut you, make you feel bad for calling in asking for issues on public radio.

I'm going to take it to the gist.

Not only am I not going to concentrate on the horse race right now,

and not only am I going to to talk about an issue,

I specifically want to do something that's never been done in the annals of the gist.

If not podcast history, I'm now about to read to you an entire bill submitted to the Congress.

This is House Resolution 642.

It was submitted yesterday.

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