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      <excerpt>...   Published online 11/5/2009 10:54 PM                  U.S. Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan., is the wealthiest member of the state's contingent on Capitol Hill, according to 2008 personal financial data. Brownback, with a net worth ranging from $3.1 million</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...in the Senate.&quot; Tiahrt is competing with fellow Republican U.S. Rep. Jerry Moran for the opportunity to replace Sen. Sam Brownback, a Republican who entered the 2010 campaign for governor. Moran has been widening his fundraising lead over Tiahrt. Accord</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...that would remove the presidential waiver from a law requiring that the U.S. embassy be moved from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kansas) announced at&#160;a Jerusalem Conference&#160;conclave on Capitol Hill Tuesday that he would be introducing t</excerpt>
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      <title>Legislation would remove embassy move waiver</title>
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      <excerpt>...Sam Brownback (R-Kansas) is planning to introduce legislation today or tomorrow that would remove the presidential waiver from the law calling for the U.S. Embassy to be moved from Tel Aviv to Jersualem. He announced his sponsorship of the Jersualem Emb</excerpt>
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      <title>Brownback wants to remove the waiver in embassy law</title>
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      <excerpt>...Northern Santa Fe unveiled its Hydrogen Hybrid Engine Monday, June 29, 2009 at its shops in Topeka, Kan. Sen. Sam Brownback took a ride on the engine in the yard during the unveiling. The Hydrogen Engine is the only one of its kind in the United States.</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...&#8212; A federal animal disease lab headed to Kansas will likely bring along companies looking to profit from that research, Sen. Sam Brownback said Monday. Brownback, along with state and local leaders, formally announced that the U.S. Department of Agric</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...| A federal animal disease lab headed to Kansas will likely bring along companies looking to profit from that research, Sen. Sam Brownback said Monday.Brownback, along with state and local leaders, formally announced that the U.S. Department of Agricult</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...and commit ourselves to tearing down the new walls of the 21st century &#8212; cyber walls, electronic censorship technology,&#8221; Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kansas), ranking minority member&#160;of the commission, said during the briefing Oct. 22. &#8220;If information i</excerpt>
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      <title>What does Twitter mean for foreign policy?</title>
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      <excerpt>...example of the Republican criticism of the Democratic administration's stimulus program came from  the lips of Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan.: &quot;Unfortunately, it is much more of a government stimulus than an economic stimulus and the bill will be left to be</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...in cash on hand at the end of September. Among recent donors to his campaign in the August 2014 primary election was U.S. Sen. Sam Brownback's leadership political action committee, Restore America. It gave $5,000.  Brownback, a Kansas Republican who en</excerpt>
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