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  <name>Rep. Edward Whitfield [R, KY-1]</name>
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      <title>Historic House health care vote divides Kentucky and Indiana lawmakers</title>
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      <excerpt> Ben Chandler and Ed Whitfield -- have complicated matters. Since 2002, the Somerset Republican&amp;#39;s eponymous Hal Rogers Prescription Monitoring Program, ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...many Kentuckians receive while raising prices, increase the already sky high deficit and hurt small business owners, said Rep. Ed Whitfield, R-Hopkinsville. The American people deserve better than this. I hope the Senate can produce a more commonsense p</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...against the bill because of the devastating consequences it will have on Kentuckys families, seniors and small businesses. Rep. Ed Whitfield, R-1st District, told his colleagues in a floor speech that the Republicans object to cutting Medicare funding a</excerpt>
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      <title>Historic House health care vote divides Kentucky and Indiana lawmakers</title>
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      <excerpt>...to send the RID Act to the full Energy and Commerce Committee for consideration. But at least one of the 80 co-sponsors, Rep. Ed Whitfield, R-Ky., has had a change of heart and will offer an amendment to simply give the NRC more authority to regulate im</excerpt>
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      <excerpt> But at least one of the 80 co-sponsors, Rep. Ed Whitfield, R-Ky., has had a change of heart and will offer an amendment to simply give the NRC more ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>... of any in the country, but Rep. Hal Rogers (whose district includes Eastern KY, where the problem is most concentrated) favors one plan to track prescription pills, while Reps. Ben Chandler (D) and Ed Whitfield (R) want another one. ...</excerpt>
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