2 Bipartisan practical joke.

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Who said lawmakers from both parties don't know how to have fun together? Oregon representatives pulled off a political prank during a special session last year like no other. Representative Jefferson Smith got all his colleagues, except one, to say part of the lyrics to the '80s song "Never Gonna Give You Up" concealed in regular floor speech, without tipping off the clerk or others. Since floor speech is always videotaped, recordings of...