Also: Dick Durbin's reasonable call for Bountygate hearings isn't playing well with Senate Republicans
Dick Durbin announced Thursday that the Senate will hold a hearing to look into practice of paying sports players bounties to injure others, because, of course, Congress loves a good professional sports scandal.
Today in sports: The iPad comes to the NFL locker room, the problem with the NFL's concussion policy, and a Red Sox pitcher says he only drank beer in the clubhouse to help the team.
As senators congratulate themselves on a debt deal, the House remains skeptical
Lawmakers are voicing cautious optimism about reaching a deal
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