ScrappleFace puts it into proper perspective.
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ScrappleFace’s April 7, 2006, analysis frames the issue concisely:
Rep. Cynthia McKinney, who last week struck a Capitol Hill police officer while running a security check point, would be allowed to remain in Congress under the terms of a new immigration reform bill. Even though she entered the Capitol illegally, the bill would treat McKinney as a guest lawmaker until the next Congressional election. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist defended this latest compromise measure saying, “the state of Georgia needs Cynthia McKinney to do the work that, apparently, no legal American citizen is willing to do.”
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