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If you walk upstairs to the first floor of the Capitol and turn left right now, you’ll smell chocolate chip cookies. And I mean fresh chocolate chip cookies, baking.
The House Judiciary Committee is just starting a hearing, likely to be well attented, on bills dealing with “partial-birth” abortion and dual sentencing.
Rep. Jay Ramras of Fairbanks chairs the committee, and is apparently the cookie man in Fairbanks (did I miss something?). So it was by request that he’s now serving up fresh-baked cookies at his hearings.
A staff member was baking them in a big toaster oven in the back of the room.