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Who knew there were so many jokesters in the nation’s capital? The number of April Fool’s Day pranks is beginning to match the page count of the federal budget.

The first prank of the day for me yesterday came at a Politico interview with Rep. Greg Walden, R-Ore., who had reporters on the edge of their seats teasing that the Federal Communications Commission’s Julius Genachowski had a new job. The punch line: Genachowski would lead an effort to provide broadband technology for the Libyan rebels.

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