C000567 1937-12-07 113 Dirksen Senate Office Building http://cochran.senate.gov/email.html 202-224-9450 Thad 'r':4 'ms':5 'sen':1 'thad':2,6,8 'cochran':3,7,9 M 300023 Cochran Thad_Cochran Sen. Thad Cochran [R, MS] N00003328 8849 Republican 202-224-5054 Baptist MS Thad Cochran 2.89473684210526 http://cochran.senate.gov 300023 Person republican Fri Nov 06 11:15:37 -0600 2009 Fri Nov 06 00:00:00 -0600 2009 ...a tough time. But I doubt Americans will begrudge spending on national parks." Republican Senators Susan Collins of Maine, Thad Cochran of Mississippi, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Bob Bennett of Utah, warmly embraced the tens of millions of dollars com 'bob':33 'com':45 'ten':40 'lisa':28 'main':23 'park':17 'side':4 'thad':24 'time':7,48 'utah':36 'warm':37 'wild':3 'doubt':10 'senat':19 'spend':14 'susan':20 'tough':6 'union':49 'alaska':31 'albani':46 'collin':21 'dollar':44 'embrac':38 'nation':16 'begrudg':13 'bennett':34 'cochran':25 'million':42 'preserv':1 'american':11 'murkowski':29 'republican':18 'mississippi':27 'times-union':47 6597827 true true daylife Albany Times-Union http://www.timesunion.com/ OK http://timesunion.com/ASPStories/Story.asp?StoryID=862450&LinkFrom=RSS 300023 Person senate Thu Nov 05 11:17:33 -0600 2009 Thu Nov 05 00:00:00 -0600 2009 ...weeks during the 1970s. "High rates of unemployment in Mississippi and around the nation remain a very real problem," said Sen. Thad Cochran, who voted for the legislation. "It is my hope that extending these benefits will well serve those still looking 'sen':26 'give':2 'high':10 'hope':37 'look':47 'rate':11 'real':23 'said':25 'serv':44 'thad':27 'vote':30 'week':6 'well':43 '1970s':9 'boost':5 'senat':1 'still':46 'around':17 'extend':39 'ledger':51 'legisl':33 'nation':19 'remain':20 'benefit':41 'clarion':50 'cochran':28 'economi':3 'problem':24 'unemploy':13 'mississippi':15 'clarion-ledg':49 6587357 true true daylife The Clarion-Ledger http://www.clarionledger.com/ OK http://www.clarionledger.com/article/20091105/NEWS/311050001/1001/RSS01 300023 Person sen\. Fri Nov 06 22:21:36 -0600 2009 Thu Nov 05 00:00:00 -0600 2009 ...authority. Before that, he was legislative assistant for agriculture and natural resources, then chief of staff for Sen. Thad Cochran of Mississippi, working on a wide range of issues important to agriculture, including the 1990, 1996, and 2002 farm bil 'bil':45 'cut':2 'sen':23 '1990':40 '1996':41 '2002':43 'farm':44,47 'huge':1 'issu':34 'rang':32 'thad':24 'wide':31 'work':28 'chief':19 'delta':46 'natur':16 'press':48 'staff':21 'assist':12 'author':6 'import':35 'includ':38 'legisl':11 'cochran':25 'program':5 'resourc':17 'univers':4 'agricultur':14,37 'mississippi':27 6604108 true true daylife Delta Farm Press http://deltafarmpress.com/ OK http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DeltaFarmPress/~3/oHJqFC6Whdw/brandon-column-university-1105 300023 Person sen\. Thu Oct 29 11:18:17 -0500 2009 Thu Oct 29 00:00:00 -0500 2009 ...U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran’s office announced Wednesday that a bill with $25 million for engineering and other preparations for the much-talked-about Richton Salt Dome petroleum reserve plan has been signed by President Obama. Cochran, who is ranking Rep '25':22 'rep':51 'sen':11 'sun':53 'u.s':10 'bill':3,20 'dome':9,37 'much':32 'plan':40 'rank':50 'salt':8,36 'sign':2,43 'talk':33 'thad':12 'engin':25 'money':6 'obama':1,46 'offic':15 'biloxi':52 'herald':54 'includ':5 'prepar':28 'presid':45 'reserv':39 'announc':16 'cochran':13,47 'million':23 'richton':35 'petroleum':38 'wednesday':17 'much-talked-about':31 6524446 true true daylife Biloxi Sun Herald http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/ OK http://www.sunherald.com/218/story/1708627.html 300023 Person sen\. Wed Oct 28 22:23:54 -0500 2009 Tue Oct 27 00:00:00 -0500 2009 ...pay about 18 percent of the Medicaid costs for new enrollees. Barbour expressed some of the same sentiments to U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran in a Sept. 8 letter in which Barbour said: " In Mississippi, the issue of Medicaid expansion hit's close to home, sinc '8':37 '18':13 'bed':7 'dem':9 'hit':50 'new':20 'pay':11 'sen':31 'u.s':30 'cost':18 'home':54 'issu':46 'said':42 'sept':36 'sinc':55 'star':58 'thad':32 'close':52 'expans':49 'health':2 'letter':38 'reform':3 'barbour':4,22,41 'cochran':33 'enrolle':21 'express':23 'percent':14 'governor':10 'medicaid':17,48 'meridian':57 'sentiment':28 'mississippi':44 6519400 true true daylife The Meridian Star http://www.meridianstar.com/ OK http://www.meridianstar.com/editorials/local_story_300224631.html 300023 Person senate Mon Oct 26 22:03:13 -0500 2009 Mon Oct 26 00:00:00 -0500 2009 Mississippi Sen. Thad Cochran gave $10000 to mcdonnell's campaign through his leadership organization, Senate Victory Fund PAC. ... 'pac':25 'sen':9 'deed':3 'fund':24 'gave':12 'push':7 'thad':10 '10000':13 'organ':21 'senat':22 'latest':5 'outpac':2 'cochran':11 'victori':23 'campaign':17 'fundrais':6 'mcdonnel':1,15 'leadership':20 'mississippi':8 'cqpolitics.com':26 6498428 true true google news CQPolitics.com OK http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?docID=news-000003231169 300023 Person sen\. Sun Oct 25 22:21:11 -0500 2009 Sun Oct 25 00:00:00 -0500 2009 Bennie Thompson and Sen. Thad Cochran have yet to translate into an authorization. It must be awfully disconcerting for the mayor to read how billions of ... 'aw':25 'kcs':6 'sen':12 'yet':16 'fund':8 'lack':4 'must':23 'post':36 'read':31 'thad':13 'benni':9 'excus':2 'mayor':29 'author':21 'tunnel':7 'billion':33 'cochran':14 'thompson':10 'translat':18 'vicksburg':35 'disconcert':26 6489207 true true google news Vicksburg Post OK http://www.vicksburgpost.com/articles/2009/10/25/opinion/doc4ae201edf24ad047000031.txt 300023 Person republican Fri Oct 23 22:20:50 -0500 2009 Fri Oct 23 00:00:00 -0500 2009 ...of the Appropriations Committee, who inserted 35 earmarks worth more than $206 million. He was outdone by Republican Sen. Thad Cochran of Mississippi, who sponsored 48 earmarks worth $216 million. It's not as if raiding the O&M budget is without consequ 'm':44 'o':43 '35':12 '48':31 '206':17 '216':34 'new':1 'sen':24 'raid':41 'thad':25 'worth':14,33 'budget':45 'insert':11 'outdon':21 'syndic':50 'cochran':26 'consequ':48 'creator':49 'earmark':13,32 'million':18,35 'newspap':2 'sponsor':30 'without':47 'appropri':8 'committe':9 '10/23/2009':5 'republican':23 'contributor':3 'mississippi':28 6471622 true true daylife Creators Syndicate http://www.creators.com/ OK http://creators.com/opinion/daily-editorials/u-s-senate-is-mugging-the-military.html 300023 Person senator Sun Oct 25 22:21:12 -0500 2009 Fri Oct 23 00:00:00 -0500 2009 To help keep pressure on President Obama to act, I recently joined a bipartisan group of 35 senators, including my colleague Thad Cochran, in writing ... '35':23 'act':15 'help':8 'join':18 'keep':9 'thad':28 'wtok':32 'advoc':2 'drill':6 'group':21 'obama':13 'senat':24 'write':31 'action':3 'includ':25 'presid':12 'recent':17 'wicker':1 'cochran':29 'offshor':5 'pressur':10 'colleagu':27 'bipartisan':20 6489211 true true google news WTOK OK http://www.wtok.com/news/mississippiheadlines/65778682.html 300023 Person senator Sun Oct 25 22:21:12 -0500 2009 Thu Oct 22 00:00:00 -0500 2009 Governor Haley Barbour declared Oct. 22, 2009, Lights On Afterschool Day across Mississippi in a proclamation issued today, and US Senator Thad Cochran—a ... '22':12 'us':26 'day':17 'oct':11 '2009':13 'issu':23 'star':32 'thad':28 'haley':8 'light':14 'senat':27 'today':24 'across':18 'celebr':2 'declar':10 'peavey':1 'barbour':9 'cochran':29 'proclam':22 'program':6 'support':3 'governor':7 'meridian':31 'afterschool':5,16 'mississippi':19 6489208 true true google news Meridian Star OK http://www.meridianstar.com/local/local_story_296004619.html 300023 Person congress Sat Nov 07 11:07:30 -0600 2009 Sat Nov 07 00:00:00 -0600 2009 This SKILLs Act was also introduced in the U.S. Senate in the 110th Congress by Senator Jack Reed (D-RI) and received bi-partisan sponsorship from Senators Thad Cochran (R-MS), John Kerry (D-MA), Blanche Lincoln (D-AR), ... 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'2.4':35 'get':4 'new':45 'two':13,38 'u.s':14 'fema':5 'near':41 'news':10 'room':40 'safe':39 'thad':16 'agenc':26 'emerg':24 'feder':23 'georg':1,30 'grant':27 'lamar':2 'local':44 'manag':25 'money':6 'roger':19 'senat':15 'counti':3,31 'friday':29 'receiv':33 'wicker':20 'announc':21 'cochran':17 'jackson':9 'lucedal':42 'million':36 'shelter':8 'wapt.com':43 'mississippi':11 6608379 false true google blog WAPT.com - Local New http://www.wapt.com/news/ OK http://www.wapt.com/news/21542065/detail.html 300023 Person senate Sat Nov 07 11:07:30 -0600 2009 Fri Nov 06 00:00:00 -0600 2009 This included the controversial amendment sponsored by Senator David Vitter (R-LA), that would have required the Census Bureau to ask about citizenship and immigration status during the upcoming 2010 census. Critics said Vitter's amendment would ... T 'r':19 'la':20 'ask':29 'lsc':7 '2010':38 'bill':4 'blog':50 'fine':48 'pass':2 'post':51 'r-la':18 'said':41 'amend':12,44 'david':16 'print':49 'remov':6 'senat':1,15 'upcom':37 'would':22,45 'bureau':27 'census':26,39 'critic':40 'immigr':33 'includ':5,9 'requir':24 'status':34 'vitter':17,42 'sponsor':13 'appropri':3 'ombwatch':53 'citizenship':31 'controversi':11 6608378 false true google blog The Fine Print: blog posts from OMBWatch http://www.ombwatch.org/the_fine_print OK http://www.ombwatch.org/node/10546 300023 Person congress Fri Nov 06 22:21:32 -0600 2009 Fri Nov 06 00:00:00 -0600 2009 Senator Thad Cochran (R-MS) has a college friend with UC. Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) has Crohn's disease. They have a personal connection to this disease and want to pass the bill as much as we do. ... 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Thad Co '1':20 '2':8 'c':17 'ad':12,24 'co':45 '-17':18 '-51':32 '000':10,11,23 '500':9 '733':22 '737':21 'ddg':31 'sen':43 'ten':15 'home':40 'miss':39 'thad':44 'addit':16,30 'built':36 'liber':48 'anonym':13,25 'expens':5 'govern':2 'taxpay':7 'unfett':1 'classic':47 'destroy':33 'product':27 'aircraft':19 'pascagoula':38 'republican':42 6604107 false true daylife The Classic Liberal http://the-classic-liberal.com/ OK http://the-classic-liberal.com/unfettered-government/ 300023 Person senate Thu Nov 05 22:25:01 -0600 2009 Thu Nov 05 00:00:00 -0600 2009 WASHINGTON, DC - November 5, 2009 - (RealEstateRama) — US Senator Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) today voted for Senate passage of legislation that will allow the state of Mississippi to offer an additional 20 weeks of unemployment benefits to ... '5':10 'r':18 '20':38 'dc':8 'us':13 '2009':11 'miss':19 'thad':15 'vote':21 'week':39 'addit':37 'allow':29 'offer':35 'senat':14,23 'state':31 'today':20 'legisl':26 'novemb':9 'passag':24 'r-miss':17 'benefit':4,42 'cochran':1,16 'support':2 'extensio':5 'unemploy':3,41 'washington':7 'mississippi':6,33,44 'realestaterama':12 6593551 false true google blog Mississippi http://mississippi.realestaterama.com/ OK http://mississippi.realestaterama.com/2009/11/05/cochran-supports-unemployment-benefits-extensio-ID071.html 300023 Person sen\. Wed Nov 04 22:32:09 -0600 2009 Wed Nov 04 00:00:00 -0600 2009 Sen. Richard C. Shelby Rep. Jerry Lewis Sen. James M. Inhofe Rep. Ron Paul Rep. Henry E. Brown Sen. Pat Roberts Sen. George V. Voinovich Sen. John McCain. Rep. Judy Biggert Sen. Thad Cochran Rep. Harold Rogers Rep. Dan Burton ... 'c':8 'e':22 'm':15 'v':29 'cat':2,47 'dan':44 'pat':25 'rep':10,17,20,34,40,43 'ron':18 'sen':6,13,24,27,31,37 'sex':1,46 'jame':14 'john':32 'judi':35 'lewi':12 'paul':19 'thad':38 'brown':23 'georg':28 'henri':21 'inhof':16 'jerri':11 'roger':42 'burton':45 'harold':41 'mccain':33 'robert':26 'shelbi':9 'biggert':36 'cochran':39 'richard':7 'internet':4,49 'healthcar':5 'voinovich':30 6582103 false true google blog Sex, Cats & the Internet http://sexcatsinternet.blogspot.com/ OK http://sexcatsinternet.blogspot.com/2009/11/healthcare.html 300023 Person sen\. Wed Nov 04 22:32:10 -0600 2009 Tue Nov 03 00:00:00 -0600 2009 Sen. Tom Coburn, 202-224-6008. Sen. Tom Carper, 202-228-2190. Sen. Tim Johnson, 202-228-5765. Sen. Thad Cochran, 202-224-9450. Sen. Susan Collins, 202-224-2693. Sen. Sherrod Brown, 202-224-6519. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, 202-228-2853 ... 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