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      <excerpt> Lisa Murkowski, will discuss energy; Idaho Sen. Mike Crapo will talk about small government; and Oklahoma Sen. Jim Inhofe will talk about the Second ... </excerpt>
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      <title>Parties cash in on hot issues</title>
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      <excerpt> Lindsay Nothern, press secretary for Mike Crapo, said the senator&amp;#39;s biggest disappointment has been that reform efforts in both chambers have failed to ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt> Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Senator Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), along with Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee Chairman John Lewis (D-GA) and ... </excerpt>
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      <title>Lawmakers Introduce Legislation to Fix Unfair Penalties on Small Businesses</title>
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      <excerpt>director of the Center for Responsive Politics, which monitors the intersection of money and politics. &quot;If you want access and influence with this lawmaker, you'd better attend the fundraiser that he's sponsoring.&quot;
Top industry executives piled into</excerpt>
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      <excerpt> Mike Crapo and Jim Risch-in opposing the big federal stimulus package. Those three votes have alienated some members of the Idaho Democratic Party. ... </excerpt>
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      <title>Minnick riles Democrats, still hopes for support</title>
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      <excerpt> Washington, DC &#8211; Idaho Senators Mike Crapo and Jim Risch are urging Americans to join an effort to record the wartime and service histories of our veterans. ... </excerpt>
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      <title>SENATE RESOLUTION SUPPORTS VETERANS HISTORIES</title>
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      <excerpt> The article said that Sen. Mike Crapo, for instance, pays $356.59 a month for health insurance for himself and his wife, with a $300 per-person deductible. ... </excerpt>
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      <title>Tom McCabe: If Congress can get great insurance, why can&amp;#39;t we?</title>
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      <excerpt> Mike Crapo and Jim Risch, are urging the designation of a National Veterans History Project Week to support efforts already under way to collect the stories ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt> Along with Sen. Mike Crapo (R-ID), Sen. Nelson (no relation) is the co-chair of the Congressional Sportsman Caucus (CSC), of which Schumer is not a member. ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt> Our senior senator, Mike Crapo, is a member of the Senate Finance Committee. One comment on this post so far. Add yours! Years and years ago, ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>As we&amp;#39;ve been reporting for months, Senator Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) have introduced S. 941, the &amp;#39;Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Reform and Firearms ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>FDL&amp;#39;s Jon Walker raps Sen. Carper for pushing trigger compromise: &amp;quot;If Harry Reid chooses to betray the Democratic base by listening to Sen. Carper it will create a lot of anger among rank and file party members.&amp;quot; ... Jim Bunning, Tom Carper ,</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>Mike Crapo and Jim Risch and Reps. Mike Simpson and Walt Minnick. Slickspot peppergrass, which grows almost exclusively in the Snake River Plain, in southwestern Idaho&amp;#39;s foothills and on the Owyhee Plateau, blooms with small white ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>334 was introduced by Senator Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, and co-sponsored by Sens. Tom Udall, D-N.M.; Harry Reid, D-Nev.; Mike Crapo, R-Idaho; Robert Casey, Jr., D-Penn.; Richard Lugar, R-Ind.; Richard Durban, D-Ill., and Sherrod Brown, ...</excerpt>
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