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Is he running for re-election or something?

He's a member of the House; he's up for re-election every national election cycle.

Given what I know of KS politics (I have friends and family who live there, some of whom are very politically minded), his taking a tough-on-Snowden stance will probably play very, very well to the people whose votes he cares about. For his purposes, little else matters...




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