Cabell regularly interjects a false little burst of laughter when Hanna's talking, symptomatic of her character's increasing nervous stress.

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Mr. BEUTTLER: And at one point, one of the members grabbed the other man's wig and it came right off, and that sort of stopped everything because everybody burst out in laughter and a sort of civility sort of returned to the House floor.

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