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A snowball, a Justin Bieber poster, and a blown-up Trump tweet: The 10 best props members of Congress have brought to the floor

Eliza Relman   

A snowball, a Justin Bieber poster, and a blown-up Trump tweet: The 10 best props members of Congress have brought to the floor
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Rep. Ruben Gallego

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Rep. Ruben Gallego reads aloud emails between Donald Trump Jr. and a publicist arranging a meeting between the Trump campaign and a Russian lawyer in June 2016.

C-SPAN might have a reputation for mind-numbing content, but once in a while lawmakers on Capitol Hill spice up the legislative debate with an eye-catching prop.

Highlights have included Sen. James Inhofe's snowball, which he brought to the floor as evidence that climate change is a "hoax" and Rep. Luis Gutierrez's poster of pop stars Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez, which he used to illustrate that racial profiling is ineffective in determining a person's immigration status.

Here are the 10 best props members of congress have brought to the floors of the House and Senate in recent years:

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