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• Latest Action: Sep 20, 2012 By Senator Baucus from Committee on Finance filed written report. Report No. 112-224. Additional views filed.

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• Committee Assignment: Senate Finance

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• 3M Company

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• ACE Group

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• American Chemistry Council

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• American Farm Bureau Federation

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• American Insurance Association

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• American Soybean Association

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• Amway Corporation

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• Bentley Systems, Incorporated

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• Beverage Distributors Co., LLC

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• Business Roundtable

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• Cardolite Corporation

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• Cargill, Incorporated

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• Citigroup

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• Dow Chemical Company

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• FedEx

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• Ford Motor Company

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• General Electric

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• Hampford Research, Inc.

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• Heritage Foundation

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• Hewlett-Packard

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• IBM Corporation

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• International Dairy Foods Association

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• JPMorgan Chase

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• McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

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• McKee Group

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• McLarty Associates

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• MetLife

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• National Association of Wheat Growers

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• National Barley Growers Association

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• National Corn Growers Association

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• Procter and Gamble Company

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• Republican Main Street Partnership

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• SEI Investments

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• Steamboat Rentals, Inc.

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• Stryker Corporation

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• Texas Instruments

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• Whirlpool Corporation

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• Xerox Corporation

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• Caterpillar

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• Microsoft

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• Applied Materials

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• International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America

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• U. S. Chamber of Commerce

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• FreedomWorks

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• Americans for Tax Reform

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• National Association of Manufacturers

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• AFL-CIO

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• International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers

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• United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial and Service Workers International Union

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• United Food and Commercial Workers International Union

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• Thursday, December 8, 2011 – Special Edition « The NonPartisan Post - December 10, 2011 by bocra - On October 11, the Finance Committee will consider S. 1641, a bill to implement the U.S.-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement; S. 1642, a bill to implement the U.S-Korea Free Trade Agreement; S. 1643, a bill to implement ...

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• Senate: Key Vote YES on Columbia, Panama and South Korea Free ... - October 22, 2011 by admin - I urge you to call your senator and ask him or her to vote YES on these free trade agreements, S.1641, S.1642, and S.1643. We will count their votes as KEY VOTES when calculating the FreedomWorks Economic Freedom Scorecard for 2011. ...

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  As noted by admin on October 22, 2011, "I urge you to call your senator and ask him or her to vote YES on these free trade agreements, S.1641, S.1642, and S.1643. We will count their votes as KEY VOTES when calculating the FreedomWorks Economic Freedom Scorecard for 2011. ..." (http://www.nationalservicecharity.org/senate-key-vote-yes-on-columbia-panama-and-south-korea-free-trade-agreements/)
• S. 1643 - October 22, 2011 by www.cbo.gov/doc.cfm?index=1772&type=0&sequence=2 - S. 1643. United States-Panama Trade Promotion Agreement. Implementation Act. As reported by the Senate Committee on Finance on October 11, 2011. SUMMARY. S. 1643 would approve the trade promotion agreement ...

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• Nero Morphs Into Foulmouthed Rocker in Paris ‘Pop’pea’ - June 05, 2012 by Bloomberg - What the Theatre du Chatelet in Paris presents is a drastically updated version of Claudio Monteverdi’s 1643 masterpiece. “Pop’pea,” the title of the new work, indicates that the music, too, is no longer what it used to be: Monteverdi ...

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• Belleville East's Hill joins 1,000-point club; Central's Book set to eclipse school scoring mark - February 03, 2012 by News-Democrat - The 6-6 Book has 1,638 career points, trailing only former teammate David Wiegmann's 1,643. Book is averaging 21.3 points per game, so the record will likely fall tonight. Wiegmann, now playing for Southwestern Illinois College, has held the ...

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  As noted by News-Democrat on February 03, 2012, "The 6-6 Book has 1,638 career points, trailing only former teammate David Wiegmann's 1,643. Book is averaging 21.3 points per game, so the record will likely fall tonight. Wiegmann, now playing for Southwestern Illinois College, has held the ..." (http://www.bnd.com/2012/02/03/2043220/hill-has-become-member-of-easts.html)
• Belleville East's Hill joins 1,000-point club; Central's Book set to eclipse school scoring mark - February 03, 2012 by News-Democrat - The 6-6 Book has 1,638 career points, trailing only former teammate David Wiegmann's 1,643. Book is averaging 21.3 points per game, so the record will likely fall tonight. Wiegmann, now playing for Southwestern Illinois College, has held the ...

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