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Blue Sky | Mar 5, 2013 | 12:53

How to get things done in Washington?

With Premier Brad Wall in Washington this week, CBC's senior Washington correspondent Neil Macdonald joined us with his take on how hard it is to make yourself heard above all the political noise in Washington.

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