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Gavel would test Johnson's recovery

Washington : DC : USA | 3 months ago

Three years after a near-fatal brain hemorrhage, Sen. Tim Johnson is poised to become the next chairman of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs. This raises a serious, if uncomfortable, question: Is he up to the task? Johnson’s colleagues say it’s a nonissue...

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Three years after a near-fatal brain hemorrhage, Sen. Tim Johnson is poised to become the next chairman of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs. This raises a serious, if uncomfortable, question: Is he up to the task? Johnson�...