2016 "Politicians vs Press" Spelling Bee
September 21, 2016
Photo Credit: The bell awaits contestants at the 2016 NPC "Politicians vs Press" Spelling Bee.
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Photo Credit: Members of the "Press" team confer at the 2016 NPC "Politicians vs Press" Spelling Bee.
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Photo Credit: Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois searches for the spelling of a particularly difficult word.
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Photo Credit: Rod Kuckro of E&E News is taken aback by the judges' vocabulary.
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Photo Credit: The "Politicians" team awaits another fusillade of hard-to-spell words at the 2016 NPC "Politicians vs Press" Spelling Bee.
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Photo Credit: 2015 Spelling Bee champ Rep. Don Beyer of Virginia bows out of the 2016 competition.
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Photo Credit: Clinton Yates of The Washington Post considers the spelling of "negligence."
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Photo Credit: The judges panel at the 2016 NPC "Politicians vs Press" Spelling Bee.
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Photo Credit: Art Swift of Gallup raises his hands in triumph after successfully spelling "apothecary."
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Photo Credit: Art Swift of Gallup holds his prize as champion of the 2016 NPC "Politicians vs Press" Spelling Bee.
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Photo Credit: The Congressional spelling delegates pose with Jairam Hathwar (front, left) and Nihar Janga (front, right), 2016 co-champions of the Scripps National Spelling Bee.
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