House Democrats are going to spend 12 hours reading the Mueller report out loud today

Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon.
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Prepare for one of the most exhausting sentences in recent House history.

Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee are going to spend an estimated 12 hours reading the 448-page report from Special Counsel Robert Mueller out loud on Thursday. It's apparently in fulfillment of the committee's "constitutional duty to share that truth with the American people," as Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon (D-Penn.) put it in a statement to Reuters. But given that the redacted report on Russian election interference has been publicly available for weeks, that explanation doesn't quite add up.

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Kathryn Krawczyk

Kathryn is a graduate of Syracuse University, with degrees in magazine journalism and information technology, along with hours to earn another degree after working at SU's independent paper The Daily Orange. She's currently recovering from a horse addiction while living in New York City, and likes to share her extremely dry sense of humor on Twitter.