Civil Beat is the only Hawaii news organization with a full-time reporter in Washington, and our D.C. bureau has been up and running for just over five months now.

As 2011 comes to a close, we looked back at some of the stories out of Washington that Hawaii readers wouldn’t have found anywhere else. 

Check out the complete list. 

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