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How Rep. Ken Calvert Took One For the GOP Team
A mild-mannered Republican congressman from Southern California unwittingly helped torpedo the annual appropriations process this summer, by triggering a debate over display of the Confederate flag. Now, he and others in the GOP have to pull off a balancing act, steering a spending plan through a Congress intent on challenging President Obama's environmental agenda.
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