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House Republican Conference: Brian Bilbray

The victor of California 50--the guy who was never supposed to get back to Congress because Republicans were deader than dead due to Duke Cunningham's dereliction of duty. Brian Bilbray, who is incidentally laid back, wry, and pretty entertaining, talks about what went wrong in '06, irresponsible Dems, and pork finding its way into budgets through various secret pathways: