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Jeff Sessions Returns to the Senate

The attorney general will publicly testify before the upper chamber’s Intelligence Committee on Tuesday in response to former FBI Director James Comey’s dramatic appearance last week.
Source: Kevin Lamarque / Reuters

Attorney General Jeff Sessions spent two decades in the Senate trying to ask hard questions of committee witnesses. Now it’s his turn in the hot seat.

The former Alabama senator is testifying before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday afternoon in his first appearance before Congress since his confirmation in February. His testimony comes less than a week after former FBI Director James Comey told senators that Sessions appeared to recognize he shouldn’t

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