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      <excerpt> The charity was also reprimanded for hiring District 3 Supervisor Tim Johnson as a lobbyist. FAIM is based in Ridgeland and operates the Boxcar Bingo hall ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>The soon-to-be White House communications director is never in one place for long. At one moment, he's feet up on someone else's desk in the press aides' pen, hands clasped behind his head. Then, leaned against a wall in David Axelrod's office down the</excerpt>
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      <excerpt> In addition, Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA), Ron Paul (R-TX), Walter Jones (R-NC), Ed Whitfield (R-KY), Roscoe Bartlett (R-MD), John Duncan (R-TN), and Tim Johnson ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>A wide range of pols are apparently &amp;quot;creating problems&amp;quot; for the legislation to create the agency, including Dems Sen. Michael Bennet (CO), Evan Bayh (IN) and Tim Johnson (SD), along with the usual Rethug Wall of Obstruction. ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>The target Senators are: Mark Begich (D-AK), Blanche Lincoln (D-AR), Bill Nelson (D-FL), Evan Bayh (D-IN), Mary Landrieu (D-LA), Olympia Snowe (R-ME), Ben Nelson (D-NE), Kent Conrad (D-ND), Byron Dorgan (D-ND), and Tim Johnson (D-SD). ...  Seniors have alr</excerpt>
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