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C-SPAN After Dark: Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-Fla.), Accused of Sexual Harassment, Talks Perversion Up the Ying-Yang

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According to The Wall Street Journal, Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-Fla.) has recently been accused of sexually harassing a member of his staff.

We now return you to a simpler time (May 1, 2009) when Rep. Hastings appeared on what seemed to be the first and only episode of C-SPAN: After Dark and delivered a prose poem cataloguing just another typical day in the House of Representatives.

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(May 1, 2009): When the lights go down and the squares leave the House floor and head back home to their second and third spouses, anything can happen in the glimmering dusky lights of Congress as the ghosts of Gerry Studds, Wilbur Mills, and Mark Foley roam the floor looking for action.

In this episode of C-SPAN After Dark, Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-Fla.) catalogs just about every fetish ever dreamed of by the U.S. Congress. We're not exactly sure if he's reading staff-written research or simply indulging in spontaneous bop prosody, but we're pretty certain that America will never be the same again. Or that HR 1913, a.k.a. the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009, never sounded so sweet.

Kids, don't try this at an awards program!

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Produced by Meredith Bragg.