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When the 3-1 Washington Redskins travel to Green Bay this weekend to play the 4-1 Packers, they’ll face a resurgent Brett Favre, who’s not only throwing for more than 300 yards per game this season, but is a newly minted congressional honoree to boot.
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Tuesday afternoon, the House passed by unanimous consent a resolution “commending Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett Favre for establishing a National Football League record for most career touchdown passes, and for other purposes.”
Nearly 70 other members of the House signed on as original co-sponsors. (Who doesn’t love a winner?) Among them: former Redskins QB and current Democrat from North Carolina Heath Shuler.
So what does this have to do with policy? We’ll let Rep. Steve Kagen, the Wisconsin Democrat who sponsored the bill, tell it. “The Green Bay Packers — unlike any other corporation in America — can never be ‘offshored,’ because the team is owned by the people living in Green Bay and Wisconsin,” he said in floor debate.
Copies of the resolution will be presented to Favre, the Packers and NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell.
And the ’Skins won’t find any friends where they’re staying, either. A spokesman for Kagen said the congressman’s district office is “off the lobby” in the Paper Valley Hotel in Appleton, where visiting teams typically stay.
