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"I think sometimes there's a difficulty in understanding what a state receives from having a majority leader in the Senate or a speaker of the House..." Foley said.

I guess pork barreling doesn't go as far as it used to in the good old days, hey Tom? :)

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"I think sometimes there's a difficulty in understanding what a state receives from having a majority leader in the Senate or a speaker of the House..." Foley said.

I guess pork barreling doesn't go as far as it used to in the good old days, hey Tom? :)

What's this about a "majority leader" in the Senate? Did I miss something?

IIRC, the reason Thune lost the 2002 race (apart from the reservation vote fraud) was the crossover Republicans voting for Johnson because they assumed that the Senate would be Democrat-controlled after the election; hence, little Tommy would be the majority leader. As we all know, that didn't happen. Well, most of us know it. Brother Foley seems to be locked in a temporal stasis field since he left DC.