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      <excerpt>...Republicans also have in their sights Democratic Sens. Blanche Lincoln in Arkansas, a state John McCain won last fall; Chris Dodd in Connecticut, hampered by a mortgage controversy; Arlen Specter in Pennsylvania, the party-switching former Republican; a</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...Republicans also have in their sights Democratic Sens. Blanche Lincoln in Arkansas, a state John McCain won last fall; Chris Dodd in Connecticut, hampered by a mortgage controversy; Arlen Specter in Pennsylvania, the party-switching former Republican; a</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...they should lose it. And that's one reason he wants to replace the alphabet soup of bank regulators with a brand new one.  SEN. CHRIS DODD, BANKING COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN: I'd like to begin there. I think that's -- because otherwise what you get is what the</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...should go to people who need them most, not people who happen to work on Wall Street,&quot; Democratic Sen. Chris Dodd of Connecticut said Thursday. &quot;Wall Street banks have already taken so much from us. They've taken trillions of our tax dollars. They've ta</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...your editorial &quot;Dodd's Card Trick&quot; (Oct. 29), you imply that Sen. Chris Dodd's proposed legislation to limit credit-card rates would interfere with the free market, with harmful consequences. But the market for credit card debt is neither free nor fair.</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...of that state&#8217;s congressional seats could go Republican and the GOP could retain the seat of retiring Sen. Judd Gregg. Sen. Chris Dodd (D) is in real trouble in Connecticut. And Patrick? Or as he&#8217;ll be known during campaign season, &#8220;Tax-raising, t</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...and city health departments, says 35.6 million doses have been made and packaged since production began. Connecticut Sen. Chris Dodd released a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius saying he was &quot;stunned&quot;. &quot;I implore you to us</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...crisis. Under Frank's proposal, the Fed would be granted enhanced powers to regulate large financial institutions.   Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) will unveil wide-ranging financial overhaul legislation as early as next week. Dodd, chairman of the Senate Ba</excerpt>
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