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Rep. Israel speaks little, but tweets a lot

Nobody in the New York congressional delegation is more enthusiastic about such social media tools as Twitter and YouTube than Rep. Steve Israel, the former public-relations man turned five-term Democratic congressman from Huntington. Just last Tuesday, he was on a panel about social media's impact on government at the Personal Democracy Forum at Lincoln Center in Manhattan. And he just redesigned...

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