Ned Price, formerly a special assistant to President Barack Obama, called Wednesday for the upcoming congressional baseball game to "go on" in spite of the shooting Wednesday morning at Republican lawmakers' baseball practice. Historically, the game has been a face-off between Democrats and Republicans, but Price proposed in light of Wednesday's attack that the teams should be decided by something other than party affiliation:
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