Alaska Sen. Begich Surprises Colleagues while Presiding over Senate

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Reid ordered the presiding officers on Thursday to hold the senators speaking in the chamber to a 10-minute time limit -- despite the unspoken rules of the Senate that allow senators to jaw on as much as they want.

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