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Shimkus defends walking out on president's speech

COLLINSVILLE — A spokesman for a Republican congressman from Collinsville says the lawmaker walked out on President Barack Obama's health-care speech to Congress this week out of frustration. Full Article at St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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