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      <excerpt> Rep. Betty McCollum attached her name to legislation that would impose a surtax to pay for the war, now the subject of a protracted review by the Obama ... </excerpt>
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      <title>Specter Goes Dove: Calls for Exit Strategy, No More Troops in Afghanistan</title>
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      <excerpt>Minnesota property taxes are projected to rise an average of 3.5% in Minnesota. MPR and the Pi Press have stories.
Another lawsuit is likely over the 35W bridge wreckage.
DFL Sen. Al Franken offers bills to help the homeless and foster children.
DFL</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>WASHINGTON, D.C. &#8212; As President Obama mulls a possible troop increase in Afghanistan, Rep. Betty McCollum, D-Minn., cosponsored legislation this week that would impose a surtax to pay for the long-running war.
If passed, the measure would require</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>Kari Dyrdahl Mounds View, MN Sent letter to Betty McCollum and Keith Ellison. send green star | flag as inappropriate. Why is this inappropriate? Send Report Cancel. Your report has been submitted to Customer Service. Thank you. ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>(Although as we found in the series I wrote, she does a lot more liberal media than Keith Ellison, Betty McCollum or Al Franken do conservative media). Both interviews were published in a question-and-answer format in which the ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>Meanwhile, Minnesota&amp;#39;s Betty McCollum, said that &amp;quot;American-made white phosphorus shells were used by Israel in civilian areas causing horrible burns to Palestinian children, yet this resolution refuses to seek the truth? ... Rep. Howard  Berman, a</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>Congressman Barney Frank (D-MA), the Chairman of the Financial Services Committee, Congresswoman Anna Eshoo (D-CA), Congressman Sam Farr (D-CA), Congressman Raul Grijalva (D-AZ), Congresswoman Betty McCollum (D-MN), Congressman Jim  McDermott .... EXCLUSIV</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>IN Rep Peter Visclosky. MA Reps Mike Capuano - candidate U.S. Senate, Bill Delahunt, Ed Markey, Jim McGovern. MD Sen Barbara Mikulski. MN Rep Betty McCollum. MO Rep William Clay; Sen Claire McCaskill. NH Rep Carol Shea-Porter. ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>The measure, sponsored by Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, a Florida Republican, earned an overwhelming 344 votes. But 36 members of Congress, all but three of them Democrats, voted against the resolution, while another 20 members voted &amp;quot;present,&amp;quot;  or .</excerpt>
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