WASHINGTON – Washington Nationals star Bryce Harper is even having an impact on Capitol Hill.

With President Barack Obama’s new policy letting certain children of illegal immigrants stay in the country, there’s a lot of speculation about how his Republican competitor Mitt Romney will respond.

But when a reporter asked Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid about the issue, Reid replied with an echo of Harper’s recent brush-off of a reporter in Canada.

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