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Offtopic, I followed the link in the last letter to that Senate committee and got:

Sorry, a potential security risk was detected in your submitted request. The Webmaster has been alerted.

Then I tried https://www.senate.gov/ and got the same thing. Is there a reason for this? I'm in the UK browsing on Firefox.

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The senate site has had SSL issues for me for years. It's very weird. If you go to: http://www.senate.gov/senators/leadership.htm and try SSL, it redirects to http. Strange. Like it's not set up recursively or something or that directory has it's own .htaccess or w/e that doesn't use SSL?

You literally mean the website of the United States senate just doesn't work, and hasn't for years? I mean, I absolutely cannot find a way to access that site without getting the same "unauthorized" message.

This can't be true...

can it?

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