Conservative senator asks that attendance rules be reviewed

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Marjory Lebreton (Fred Chartrand CP).jpgMarjory LeBreton, the government leader in the Senate, tells host Evan Solomon she has asked the Internal Economy Committee in the Senate to look into the rules surrounding attendance, days after Tory Senator Patrick Brazeau lashed out at a journalist who revealed he had the poorest attendance record for this session of Parliament.

 

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