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      <excerpt> &amp;quot;That would have left us as an Air Guard with no airplanes,&amp;quot; US Sen. Tom Carper, D-Del., said. &amp;quot;It&amp;#39;s hard to be an Air Guard when you have no airplanes. ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt> I welcome Senator Schumer, Landrieu and Carper, who Senator Landrieu said that they&amp;#39;re working together to find a public option that&amp;#39;s acceptable to all ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt> If Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden decides to run for the US Senate he&amp;#39;ll have US Sen. Tom Carper&amp;#39;s (D-Del.) vote. &amp;quot;In the end I&amp;#39;ll vote for Beau,&amp;quot; ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt> They&amp;#39;re also in discussions with leadership and Sen. Tom Carper (D-DE) regarding a compromise modeled on Snowe&amp;#39;s trigger. How they change the bill so ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...asked for an explanation of the agency's policies that &quot;guarantee that a fair and transparent determination is made.&quot; Sen. Tom Carper, D-Del., said Monday that several people who had been denied disability benefits had asked his staff for help in recent</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>Delaware&amp;#39;s senior Senator Tom Carper (D) says Lieberman&amp;#39;s main concern making sure &#8220;we don&amp;#39;t balloon or swell the deficit, the nation&amp;#39;s debt further by what we do with respect to a public option.&#8221; Carper calls that a reasonable concern.</excerpt>
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