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      <excerpt>...candidates, including well-established GOP members like Sens. Charles E. Grassley (Iowa), Orrin G. Hatch (Utah), Lindsey Graham (S.C.) and McCain, with whom she shared the 2008 presidential ticket, as well as Rep. Roy Blunt (Mo.), who is running for Sen</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...Berners-Lee have a lot of interesting things to say about smart-grid technology. From another dinner I learned that U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham is surprisingly passionate about staking out ground for Republicans on climate-change legislation. He more than </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>Criticism by some senators of Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to treat attempted airline bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab as a prisoner to be handled according to American standards of justice is entirely unjustified.
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      <excerpt>...my daughter Logan and I were in Washington, D.C., and we ran into Sen. Lindsey Graham on our way to tour the Capitol. We thanked him for his ongoing efforts on clean energy legislation. Theres gridlock in Washington, and yet Sen. Graham is proving that </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...with co-sponsors Sens. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Susan Collins (R-Maine), Judd Gregg (R-N.H.), Edward Kaufman (D-Del.), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), Joe Lieberman (ID-Conn.) and </excerpt>
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