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White House Gate Crashers Refuse Congress Hearing
Share + Dec 2, 2009 10:30 pm US/Central 1 of 4 White House party crashers Tareq and Michaele Salahi are declining an invitation to testify before Congress about their caper last week at the president's first state dinner.
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Secret Service officials told members of the House Oversight and Government Reform committee that human error allowed Tareq and Michaele Salahi into the Obama administration's first state dinner earlier this month.
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Republicans stay on warpath against ACORN
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