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Have broken a centuries' old law, that prevents u.s. citizens from corresponding with governments. but it's highly unlikely they will ever be punished. karen travers, abc news, news. washington. republican senator rand paul joined with democrats kirsten gillibrand and cory booker, authoring a bill to remove federal prohibitions on medical marijuana in the 23 states where it's already legal. it would allow doctors to prescribe pot. and would allow banks to offer accounts to marijuana dispensaries. technology strikes again. that has an indiana lawmaker apologizing for his poor judgment. he i...

>> a lawmaker apologizing to bp for that $20 billion fund that they agreed to to pay for damages. you can almost just imagine how this played out. democrats hit hard on this and republicans were very quick to shun joe barton's remarks here. so what ended up happening was joe barton later came before the committee and said he apologized if his remarks were misconstrued, but then he went on to issue a written statement that was really a whole lot stronger than that. it said, "i apologize for using the term shakedown with regard to yesterday's actions in the white house in my opening statement an...

Happened in the white house yesterday. i think it is a tragedy of the first proportion that a private corporation can be subjected to what i would characterize as a shakedown. in this case a $20 billion shakedown. i'm only speaking for myself. i'm not speaking for anybody else, but i apologize. >> a lawmaker apologizing to bp basically for the fact that they had to commit to this $20 billion fund to pay for the damages from the gulf spill. well, you can imagine, democrats pounced on this, including vice president joe biden. then we saw republicans really distance themselves from joe barton on ...