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 n.— «This is turning into a difficult summer for the 13 chairmen of the House Appropriations subcommittees, the powerful legislators known reverentially on Capitol Hill as “the cardinals.”» —“In College of ‘Cardinals,’ A Summer of Frustration” by Dan Morgan Washington Post June 30, 1989. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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