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      <excerpt> Democrat Collin Peterson and Republicans John Kline, Erik Paulsen and Michele Bachmann voted against the bill. If the Democrats can&amp;#39;t get Collin Peterson&amp;#39;s ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt> Republicans questioning what they said where high costs, an 8-percent inflation rate and, as Rep. John Kline (R-Minnesota) phrased it, &#8220;a huge morass&#8221; of ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt> Later this afternoon, Rep. John Kline is expected to lead the Republican portion of the debate on the floor. See our story this morning for more details ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt> As the senior Republican on the US House Education and Labor Committee, Minnesota congressman John Kline is expected to get a lot of face time on C-SPAN ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt> Representative John Kline, R-MN, ranking Republican on the House Education and Labor Committee, called the latest jobs figures &amp;quot;sobering. ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt> Erik Paulsen joined Ellison in voting for the measure. Minnesota Republican Reps. Michele Bachmann and John Kline voted against it. Rep. ... </excerpt>
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      <title>House votes on credit-card consumer protections</title>
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      <excerpt>...D.C. &#8212; As unemployment numbers continued to climb this week, Rep. John Kline, R-Minn., accused the Democrats of focusing on a &#8220;government takeover of health care&#8221; at the expense of the economy. &#8220;In their haste to put Washington bureaucrats in ch</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>John Kline [R, MN-2] Nay Rep. Suzanne Kosmas [D, FL-24] Nay Rep. Frank Kratovil [D, MD-1] Nay Rep. Dennis Kucinich [D, OH-10] Nay Rep. Doug Lamborn [R, CO-5] Nay Rep. Leonard Lance [R, NJ-7] Nay Rep. James Langevin [D, RI-2] Aye Rep. ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>Meet your Health Choices Commissioner (on paper &#8212; for now): Rep. John Kline, R-Minn., top Republican on the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee, &#8220;highlights the massive power handed over to a new super-bureaucrat &#8212; the Health ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>Representative John Kline (R-MN) has been an out-spoken opponent of the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA). Kline has framed this issue as one of protecting us from tyrannies that use secret ballots. &#8220;There are sacred principles that ...</excerpt>
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      <title>Rep. Kline Upset With Using Democracy For Workers</title>
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      <excerpt>As a Minnesotan, I am proud of Bachmann, even though she lives not too far from me, she is not my Congressional rep. That is John Kline, who is a solid conservative. She must be on to Obama, she is constantly under fire. ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>2:21 &#8211; Rep John Kline (R-Minn) calls the bill a vast expansion of government and creates many new bureaucracy. It points to the many powers of the new exchange Commissioner. He lists each page where the Commissioner is given a job. ...</excerpt>
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