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punchbowl

/ ˈpʌntʃˌbəʊl /

noun

  1. a large bowl for serving punch, lemonade, etc, usually with a ladle and often having small drinking glasses hooked around the rim

  2. a bowl-shaped depression in the land

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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An unnamed senior House Republican told Punchbowl News’ Jake Sherman compared the House floor to a “tinder box.”

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“We are moving full steam ahead,” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries told Punchbowl News.

“It was a total failure of leadership to let this happen in a way that is going to be bad for our own members, bad for the House, bad for representation across the country,” he told Punchbowl News.

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"So who won? No one," congressional media outlet Punchbowl News said in a cost-benefit analysis of the standoff.

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He told Punchbowl News that “every day we’re getting better and better as the message sinks in more and more deeply.”

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