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      <excerpt>...Norm Dicks is likely to succeed the late Rep. John Murtha as chairman of the House subcommittee that oversees Pentagon spending.  Murtha died Monday at age 77 after suffering complications from gallbladder surgery. The Pennsylvania Democrat was head of </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...and Space Co. for the $35 billion contract. Then Murtha backed off by late summer. That was a change in position that U.S. Rep. Norm Dicks took credit for. Now Dicks, a Bremerton Democrat, will likely head the defense appropriatations subcommittee that </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...D-Bremerton, a powerful new chairmanship in House. WASHINGTON &#8212; Rep. John Murtha's death Monday is likely to give Rep. Norm Dicks, D-Bremerton, a powerful new chairmanship in House. Dicks is the highest-ranking Democrat on the Defense Appropriations S</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...panel dropped its probe of Murtha and two other members of the defense spending panel. The Office of Congressional Ethics told aides for Murtha, and Reps. Norm Dicks, D-Wash., and Jim Moran, D-Va., it no longer was investigating the allegations. (c) UPI</excerpt>
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      <excerpt> By Paul Kane Rep. Norman Dicks (D-Wash.), a moderate with close ties to the Boeing Company and lobbying firms relying on defense contracts, ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...Norman Dicks (D-Wash.), a moderate with close ties to the Boeing Company and lobbying firms relying on defense contracts, is in line to succeed the late John P. Murtha as the top lawmaker overseeing the Pentagon's more than $700 billion annual budget.  </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...the willingness of three citizens &#8211; Republican Doug Cloud, Democrat Paul Richmond and Green Gary Murrell &#8211; to challenge U.S. Rep. Norm Dicks in the Sixth Congressional District.  Still, Dicks not only will be re-elected &#8211; he should be.   The peopl</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...lawyer and Gig Harbor resident Doug Cloud, a Republican, is again challenging Rep. Norm Dicks, D-Belfair, in the 6th Congressional District.  In his announcement release, Cloud says it&#8217;s time for a change from the 17-term Democrat. &#8220;Norm Dicks has s</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>REP. JOHN MURTHA: The longtime Johnstown Congressman passed away yesterday at the age of 77 after complications from gallbladder surgery. Few members not in House leadership were better-known, or more contentious, and for 36 years his ...  Norm Dicks (D-WA</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>Presumable successor of Mr. Jack Murtha being a chairman of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense is Mr. Norm Dicks (Republican Congressman from the District Washington) who is well-known as Boeing Company&amp;#39;s big booster. Ms. Nancy  Pelosi said tha</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>Rep. Ted Harhai since he lives in Monessen and maybe Rep. John Pallone. The others, I don&amp;#39;t think so. Rep. Jim Casorio lives in PA-18, Rep. Joe Marsosek may live in PA-18 OR PA-14 but not PA-12. Rep. Deborah Kula (who has a part of the  County in here </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>Liz, Murthas untimely passing has put a D, Norm Dicks from WA (Boeing) in charge of the House Armed Services committee... Which will put the hurt on Shelby&amp;#39;s Airbus blackmail. And Shelby has now dropped his hold on all but three ...</excerpt>
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