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      <excerpt>...who is more weak and vulnerable than a pre-born human being? I applaud these courageous -- and correct -- Democrats. Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., a long-time defender of the defenseless, calls the health care reform bill the &quot;Abortion Industry Bailout Act </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...'bag man' will deliver government funds to abortionists.&#160; This is federal funding of elective abortion.&quot; Pro-life Congressman Chris Smith (R-NJ) called Ellsworth's proposal equivalent to the government &quot;taking out a contract on the unborn.&quot;&#160;  Shortly </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...already reduced this year&#8217;s county budget, in part by laying off employees.  They had received endorsements from U.S. Rep. Chris Smith, State Sen. Bill Baroni, both Hamilton Republicans, John Bencivengo, the mayor of Hamilton, and former State Sen. Pe</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>WASHINGTON, DC, October 2, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) -- Eminent pro-life leaders from across the nation will be speaking tonight during an emergency&#160;Stop the Abortion Mandate nationwide webcast, designed to educate people to the dangers of the</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...of the evening was to mobilize the party's get-out-the-vote efforts.  &quot;It all comes down now to three things,'' said Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J. &quot;Turnout, turnout and turnout.''   This was the fourth visit to Ocean County for Christie since Wednesday and h</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...elected governor. Over the weekend, he got campaign help from Steve Lonegan, the more conservative candidate Christie defeated in the primary in June. In Toms River, he stood with U.S. Rep. Chris Smith, a popular Republican who represents Ocean County..</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>Christie spoke Sunday evening at the Holiday Inn in Toms River in one of his last pre-election rallies in his neck-and-neck campaign to unseat Democratic incumbent Gov. Jon Corzine.
 
 &quot;It all comes down to turnout now,&quot; he told an exuberant crowd of</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...affected by international child abduction, the amendment is intended to spur such a move, according to sponsor Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J. &quot;This will be the catalyst for significant reform,&quot; Smith told Stars and Stripes on Thursday. The report, which is du</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>We thank Representatives Bart Stupak (D-MI), Brad Ellsworth (D-IN), Joe Pitts (R-PA), Marcy Kaptur (D-OH), Kathy Dahlkemper (D-PA), Dan Lipinski (D-IL), and Chris Smith (R-NJ) for standing with more than 70% of Americans who morally ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>UPDATE, 8:10a: Here&amp;#39; an email from a House source, sent in the wee hours, that offers an excellent explanation of what&amp;#39;s happening: After a very long day, the House leadership acquiesced to pro-life Democrats led by Rep. ... Bart Stupak (D- MI), Br</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>(The Representative declined to press charges and would prefer to move on and focus on the people&amp;#39;s business, so I will leave the story there.) All this, remember, at the urging of Rep. Michele Bachmann and other congressional colleagues  that joined .</excerpt>
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