<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<person>
  <biography nil="true"></biography>
  <bioguideid>L000261</bioguideid>
  <birthday type="date">1934-06-28</birthday>
  <blog-article-count type="integer">12591</blog-article-count>
  <congress-office>269 Russell Senate Office Building</congress-office>
  <contact-webform>http://levin.senate.gov/contact/</contact-webform>
  <district nil="true"></district>
  <email nil="true"></email>
  <fax>202-224-1388</fax>
  <firstname>Carl</firstname>
  <fti-names>'d':4 'mi':5 'sen':1 'carl':2,6,8 'levin':3,7,9</fti-names>
  <gender>M</gender>
  <id type="integer">300066</id>
  <lastname>Levin</lastname>
  <metavid-id>Carl_Levin</metavid-id>
  <middlename nil="true"></middlename>
  <name>Sen. Carl Levin [D, MI]</name>
  <news-article-count type="integer">7016</news-article-count>
  <nickname nil="true"></nickname>
  <osid>N00001691</osid>
  <page-views-count type="integer">25931</page-views-count>
  <party>Democrat</party>
  <phone>202-224-6221</phone>
  <religion>Jewish</religion>
  <state>MI</state>
  <sunlight-nickname nil="true"></sunlight-nickname>
  <title>Sen.</title>
  <unaccented-name>Carl Levin</unaccented-name>
  <url nil="true"></url>
  <user-approval type="float">2.01515151515152</user-approval>
  <watchdog-id nil="true"></watchdog-id>
  <website>http://levin.senate.gov/</website>
  <youtube-id nil="true"></youtube-id>
  <recent-news type="array">
    <recent-news type="Commentary">
      <average-rating type="float" nil="true"></average-rating>
      <commentariable-id type="integer">300066</commentariable-id>
      <commentariable-type>Person</commentariable-type>
      <contains-term>senate</contains-term>
      <created-at type="timestamp">Thu Nov 19 22:23:47 -0600 2009</created-at>
      <date type="timestamp">Thu Nov 19 00:00:00 -0600 2009</date>
      <excerpt>&#8220;It is a very, very challenging subject, one that I know we can get our arms around,&#8221; Stanley told the Senate Armed Services Committee during his confirmation hearing Thursday. 
 
President Barack Obama&#8217;s choice to handle Pentagon personnel</excerpt>
      <fti-names>'ll':5 'arm':29,35 'ask':9 'get':27 'one':21 'say':3 'hear':41 'hill':53 'know':24 'pick':2 'tell':12 'told':32 'choic':47 'handl':49 'obama':45 'senat':34 'around':30 'barack':44 'explor':6 'presid':43 'repeal':13 'servic':36 'confirm':40 'stanley':31 'subject':20 'challeng':19 'committe':37 'pentagon':1,50 'thursday':42 'personnel':51</fti-names>
      <id type="integer">6740067</id>
      <is-news type="boolean">true</is-news>
      <is-ok type="boolean">true</is-ok>
      <scraped-from>daylife</scraped-from>
      <source>The Hill</source>
      <source-url>http://www.thehill.com/</source-url>
      <status>OK</status>
      <title>Pentagon pick says he&#8217;ll explore &#8216;Don&#8217;t ask, don&#8217;t tell&#8217; repeal</title>
      <url>http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/68765-pentagon-pick-says-hell-explore-dont-ask-dont-tell-repeal</url>
      <weight type="integer" nil="true"></weight>
    </recent-news>
    <recent-news type="Commentary">
      <average-rating type="float" nil="true"></average-rating>
      <commentariable-id type="integer">300066</commentariable-id>
      <commentariable-type>Person</commentariable-type>
      <contains-term>sen\.</contains-term>
      <created-at type="timestamp">Thu Nov 19 22:23:47 -0600 2009</created-at>
      <date type="timestamp">Thu Nov 19 00:00:00 -0600 2009</date>
      <excerpt>...Conaton, Air Force undersecretary; and Romo to head the agency that maintains readiness to implement a military draft. Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., Armed Services Committee chairman, said the &#8220;nominees are highly qualified for the positions.&#8221; &#8220;I than</excerpt>
      <fti-names>'d':31 'air':10 'arm':33 's.a':1 'san':48 'sen':27 'carl':28 'forc':11 'head':16 'hear':8 'high':41 'mich':32 'romo':14 'said':37 'sail':6 'agenc':18 'draft':26 'levin':29 'posit':45 'readi':21 'd-mich':30 'nomine':2,39 'select':4 'servic':5,34 'antonio':49 'conaton':9 'express':50 'qualifi':42 'chairman':36 'committe':35 'maintain':20 'militari':25 'implement':23 'undersecretari':12</fti-names>
      <id type="integer">6740068</id>
      <is-news type="boolean">true</is-news>
      <is-ok type="boolean">true</is-ok>
      <scraped-from>daylife</scraped-from>
      <source>San Antonio Express</source>
      <source-url>http://www.mysanantonio.com/</source-url>
      <status>OK</status>
      <title>S.A. nominee for Selective Service sails through hearing</title>
      <url>http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_news/SA_nominee_for_Selective_Service_sails_through_hearing.html</url>
      <weight type="integer" nil="true"></weight>
    </recent-news>
    <recent-news type="Commentary">
      <average-rating type="float" nil="true"></average-rating>
      <commentariable-id type="integer">300066</commentariable-id>
      <commentariable-type>Person</commentariable-type>
      <contains-term>senate</contains-term>
      <created-at type="timestamp">Thu Nov 19 22:23:47 -0600 2009</created-at>
      <date type="timestamp">Thu Nov 19 00:00:00 -0600 2009</date>
      <excerpt>...be pretty cold,&#8221; Specter said. He added that there would be a greater appetite in the Senate for a proposal issued by Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) to instead emphasize the training of Afghan soldiers and police. Specter claimed that his opponent in the P</excerpt>
      <fti-names>'d':33 'p':52 'ad':3,13 'sen':29 'carl':30 'cold':9 'issu':27 'mich':34 'said':11 'claim':46 'levin':31 'oppon':49 'oppos':2 'polic':44 'senat':23 'train':39 'troop':4 'would':16 'afghan':41 'd-mich':32 'emphas':37 'pretti':8 'propos':26 'appetit':20 'greater':19 'instead':36 'soldier':42 'specter':1,10,45 'independ':55 'washington':54 'afghanistan':6</fti-names>
      <id type="integer">6740069</id>
      <is-news type="boolean">true</is-news>
      <is-ok type="boolean">true</is-ok>
      <scraped-from>daylife</scraped-from>
      <source>The Washington Independent</source>
      <source-url>http://washingtonindependent.com/</source-url>
      <status>OK</status>
      <title>Specter Opposes Adding Troops in Afghanistan</title>
      <url>http://washingtonindependent.com/68448/specter-opposes-adding-troops-in-afghanistan</url>
      <weight type="integer" nil="true"></weight>
    </recent-news>
    <recent-news type="Commentary">
      <average-rating type="float" nil="true"></average-rating>
      <commentariable-id type="integer">300066</commentariable-id>
      <commentariable-type>Person</commentariable-type>
      <contains-term>sen\.</contains-term>
      <created-at type="timestamp">Thu Nov 19 22:23:47 -0600 2009</created-at>
      <date type="timestamp">Thu Nov 19 00:00:00 -0600 2009</date>
      <excerpt>...in hopes of identifying opportunities to retrain them for work in alternative energy fields. In a news release, U.S. Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., said the funding would be split among Michigan, Indiana and Ohio as part of the Labor Department's State Labor</excerpt>
      <fti-names>'d':33 'job':9 'sen':29 'u.s':28 'carl':30 'free':56 'fund':37 'hope':11 'mich':34 'news':26 'ohio':45 'part':47 'said':35 'work':19 'among':41 'clean':7 'field':23 'focus':3 'labor':50,54 'levin':31 'press':57 'split':40 'state':53 'studi':1 'would':38 'altern':21 'd-mich':32 'depart':51 'energi':8,22 'releas':27 'detroit':55 'indiana':43 'retrain':5,16 'identifi':13 'michigan':42 'opportun':14</fti-names>
      <id type="integer">6740070</id>
      <is-news type="boolean">true</is-news>
      <is-ok type="boolean">true</is-ok>
      <scraped-from>daylife</scraped-from>
      <source>Detroit Free Press</source>
      <source-url>http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/frontpage</source-url>
      <status>OK</status>
      <title>Study to focus on retraining for clean energy jobs</title>
      <url>http://www.freep.com/article/20091119/BUSINESS01/911190464/1002/RSS02</url>
      <weight type="integer" nil="true"></weight>
    </recent-news>
    <recent-news type="Commentary">
      <average-rating type="float" nil="true"></average-rating>
      <commentariable-id type="integer">300066</commentariable-id>
      <commentariable-type>Person</commentariable-type>
      <contains-term>senate</contains-term>
      <created-at type="timestamp">Wed Nov 18 22:25:07 -0600 2009</created-at>
      <date type="timestamp">Wed Nov 18 00:00:00 -0600 2009</date>
      <excerpt>...Swiss franc during that period. One million francs was worth about $600,000 in 2001, about $900,000 seven years later. U.S. Sen. Carl Levin, who chairs Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, called the criteria &quot;disappointing&quot; because it means</excerpt>
      <fti-names>'14':1 '000':21,26 '600':20 '700':2 '900':25 'one':14 'sen':31 'tax':6 'u.s':30 '2001':23 'call':41 'carl':32 'mean':47 'rosa':49 'take':3 'year':28 'chair':35 'franc':10,16 'haven':7 'later':29 'levin':33 'press':50 'santa':48 'senat':36 'seven':27 'swiss':9 'worth':18 'period':13 'perman':37 'amnesti':8 'million':15 'advantag':4 'criteria':43 'democrat':51 'investig':40 'disappoint':44 'subcommitte':38</fti-names>
      <id type="integer">6734634</id>
      <is-news type="boolean">true</is-news>
      <is-ok type="boolean">true</is-ok>
      <scraped-from>daylife</scraped-from>
      <source>Santa Rosa Press Democrat</source>
      <source-url>http://www.pressdemocrat.com/</source-url>
      <status>OK</status>
      <title>14,700 take advantage of tax haven amnesty</title>
      <url>http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20091118/business/911181055</url>
      <weight type="integer" nil="true"></weight>
    </recent-news>
    <recent-news type="Commentary">
      <average-rating type="float" nil="true"></average-rating>
      <commentariable-id type="integer">300066</commentariable-id>
      <commentariable-type>Person</commentariable-type>
      <contains-term>sen\.</contains-term>
      <created-at type="timestamp">Wed Nov 18 22:25:07 -0600 2009</created-at>
      <date type="timestamp">Wed Nov 18 00:00:00 -0600 2009</date>
      <excerpt>...was the manufacturing leader of the 20th century, it can be the leader in green jobs and manufacturing in the 21st, said Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich. This study and other programs like it will show that Michigans strong workforce can serve as the foundation</excerpt>
      <fti-names>'d':34 'job':23 'sen':30 '20th':14 '21st':28 'auto':6 'carl':31 'help':4 'like':41 'mich':35 'port':55 'said':29 'serv':50 'show':44 'time':57 'feder':1 'green':22 'huron':56 'levin':32 'money':2 'studi':37 'd-mich':33 'herald':58 'leader':11,20 'strong':47 'worker':7 'centuri':15 'foundat':53 'program':40 'michigan':5,46 'workforc':48 'manufactur':10,25</fti-names>
      <id type="integer">6734633</id>
      <is-news type="boolean">true</is-news>
      <is-ok type="boolean">true</is-ok>
      <scraped-from>daylife</scraped-from>
      <source>The Port Huron Times Herald</source>
      <source-url>http://www.thetimesherald.com/</source-url>
      <status>OK</status>
      <title>Federal money to help Michigan auto workers</title>
      <url>http://www.thetimesherald.com/article/20091118/NEWS05/91118008/1002/rss</url>
      <weight type="integer" nil="true"></weight>
    </recent-news>
    <recent-news type="Commentary">
      <average-rating type="float" nil="true"></average-rating>
      <commentariable-id type="integer">300066</commentariable-id>
      <commentariable-type>Person</commentariable-type>
      <contains-term>senate</contains-term>
      <created-at type="timestamp">Wed Nov 18 11:17:46 -0600 2009</created-at>
      <date type="timestamp">Wed Nov 18 00:00:00 -0600 2009</date>
      <excerpt>...and veterans programs, telling his colleagues, &quot;If you want terrorists here, then vote against this amendment.&quot;  But Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, contended the amendment would &quot;actually make us less secure </excerpt>
      <fti-names>'d':28 'us':43 'arm':34 'los':46 'sen':24 'carl':25 'less':44 'make':42 'mich':29 'tell':10 'time':48 'vote':19 'want':15 'amend':22,39 'angel':47 'levin':26 'savag':4 'secur':45 'senat':33 'would':40 'actual':41 'apolog':2 'd-mich':27 'lawmak':1 'remark':6 'servic':35 'contend':37 'program':9 'veteran':8 'chairman':30 'colleagu':12 'committe':36 'religion':5 'terrorist':16</fti-names>
      <id type="integer">6727303</id>
      <is-news type="boolean">true</is-news>
      <is-ok type="boolean">true</is-ok>
      <scraped-from>daylife</scraped-from>
      <source>Los Angeles Times</source>
      <source-url>http://www.latimes.com/</source-url>
      <status>OK</status>
      <title>Lawmaker apologizes after 'savage religion' remark</title>
      <url>http://feeds.latimes.com/~r/latimes/news/nationworld/nation/~3/nx4KFUT0JVA/la-na-guantanamo-illinois18-2009nov18,0,5590211.story</url>
      <weight type="integer" nil="true"></weight>
    </recent-news>
    <recent-news type="Commentary">
      <average-rating type="float" nil="true"></average-rating>
      <commentariable-id type="integer">300066</commentariable-id>
      <commentariable-type>Person</commentariable-type>
      <contains-term>senate</contains-term>
      <created-at type="timestamp">Wed Nov 18 11:17:46 -0600 2009</created-at>
      <date type="timestamp">Wed Nov 18 00:00:00 -0600 2009</date>
      <excerpt>...during that period. One million francs was worth about $600,000 in 2001, compared with about $900,000 seven years later. U.S. Sen. Carl Levin (D., Mich.), who chairs the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, called the criteria &quot;disappointing</excerpt>
      <fti-names>'d':33 '14':1 '000':18,25 '600':17 '700':2 '900':24 'one':11 'sen':30 'u.s':29 '2001':20 'call':43 'carl':31 'mich':34 'year':27 'admit':3 'chair':36 'franc':13 'later':28 'levin':32 'senat':38 'seven':26 'worth':15 'compar':21 'inquir':48 'period':10 'perman':39 'secret':5 'account':7 'million':12 'offshor':6 'criteria':45 'investig':42 'disappoint':46 'subcommitte':40 'philadelphia':47</fti-names>
      <id type="integer">6727305</id>
      <is-news type="boolean">true</is-news>
      <is-ok type="boolean">true</is-ok>
      <scraped-from>daylife</scraped-from>
      <source>Philadelphia Inquirer</source>
      <source-url>http://www.philly.com/inquirer/</source-url>
      <status>OK</status>
      <title>14,700 admit to secret offshore accounts</title>
      <url>http://www.philly.com/philly/business/20091118_14_700_admit_to_secret_offshore_accounts.html</url>
      <weight type="integer" nil="true"></weight>
    </recent-news>
    <recent-news type="Commentary">
      <average-rating type="float" nil="true"></average-rating>
      <commentariable-id type="integer">300066</commentariable-id>
      <commentariable-type>Person</commentariable-type>
      <contains-term>sen\.</contains-term>
      <created-at type="timestamp">Wed Nov 18 22:25:08 -0600 2009</created-at>
      <date type="timestamp">Wed Nov 18 00:00:00 -0600 2009</date>
      <excerpt>...in hopes of identifying opportunities to retrain them for work in alternative energy fields. In a news release, U.S. Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., said the funding would be split between Michigan, Indiana and Ohio as part of the Labor Departments State Labo</excerpt>
      <fti-names>'d':32 '4m':1 'sen':28 'set':2 'u.s':27 'asid':3 'carl':29 'free':54 'fund':36 'hope':10 'labo':52 'mich':33 'news':25 'ohio':44 'part':46 'said':34 'work':18 'field':22 'labor':49 'levin':30 'press':55 'split':39 'state':51 'studi':5 'would':37 'altern':20 'd-mich':31 'depart':50 'energi':21 'releas':26 'detroit':53 'indiana':42 'retrain':7,15 'autowork':8 'identifi':12 'michigan':41 'opportun':13</fti-names>
      <id type="integer">6734635</id>
      <is-news type="boolean">true</is-news>
      <is-ok type="boolean">true</is-ok>
      <scraped-from>daylife</scraped-from>
      <source>Detroit Free Press</source>
      <source-url>http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/frontpage</source-url>
      <status>OK</status>
      <title>$4M set aside for study to retrain autoworkers</title>
      <url>http://www.freep.com/article/20091118/NEWS06/91118043/1002/RSS02</url>
      <weight type="integer" nil="true"></weight>
    </recent-news>
    <recent-news type="Commentary">
      <average-rating type="float" nil="true"></average-rating>
      <commentariable-id type="integer">300066</commentariable-id>
      <commentariable-type>Person</commentariable-type>
      <contains-term>senate</contains-term>
      <created-at type="timestamp">Wed Nov 18 11:17:46 -0600 2009</created-at>
      <date type="timestamp">Tue Nov 17 00:00:00 -0600 2009</date>
      <excerpt>...used the existence of the facility as a recruitment tool,&quot; the Obama Cabinet members said of Guantanamo in their letter.  Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, contended the amendment would &quot;actually make us less se</excerpt>
      <fti-names>'d':37 'se':54 'us':52 'arm':43 'los':55 'sen':33 'u.s':9 'use':13 'carl':34 'halt':5 'less':53 'make':51 'mich':38 'said':27 'time':57 'tool':22 'amend':48 'angel':56 'block':2 'exist':15 'facil':6,18 'levin':35 'obama':24 'senat':1,42 'would':49 'actual':50 'd-mich':36 'effort':3 'letter':32 'member':26 'servic':44 'upgrad':7 'cabinet':25 'contend':46 'detaine':12 'recruit':21 'chairman':39 'committe':45 'guantanamo':11,29</fti-names>
      <id type="integer">6727304</id>
      <is-news type="boolean">true</is-news>
      <is-ok type="boolean">true</is-ok>
      <scraped-from>daylife</scraped-from>
      <source>Los Angeles Times</source>
      <source-url>http://www.latimes.com/</source-url>
      <status>OK</status>
      <title>Senate blocks effort to halt facility upgrades in U.S. for Guantanamo detainees</title>
      <url>http://feeds.latimes.com/~r/latimes/news/politics/~3/9-slTaXPXIE/la-na-senate-guantanamo18-2009nov18,0,6138721.story</url>
      <weight type="integer" nil="true"></weight>
    </recent-news>
  </recent-news>
  <recent-blogs type="array">
    <recent-blog type="Commentary">
      <average-rating type="float" nil="true"></average-rating>
      <commentariable-id type="integer">300066</commentariable-id>
      <commentariable-type>Person</commentariable-type>
      <contains-term>senator</contains-term>
      <created-at type="timestamp">Thu Nov 19 22:23:41 -0600 2009</created-at>
      <date type="timestamp">Thu Nov 19 00:00:00 -0600 2009</date>
      <excerpt>Despite their pro-abortion positions, Senator Debbie Stabenow and Senator Carl Levin need to hear your voices on this crucial issue. They need know the people of Michigan strongly believe that abortion is not health care. ...</excerpt>
      <fti-names>'pro':16 'blog':7,56 'care':9,49 'carl':24 'hear':28 'issu':34 'know':37 'life':3,52 'need':26,36 'voic':30 'abort':17,45 'debbi':20 'focus':11 'levin':25 'peopl':39 'posit':18 'right':1,50 'senat':19,23 'shift':12 'believ':43 'despit':13 'health':8,48 'reform':10 'strong':42 'crucial':33 'michigan':5,41,54 'stabenow':21 'pro-abort':15</fti-names>
      <id type="integer">6740059</id>
      <is-news type="boolean">false</is-news>
      <is-ok type="boolean">true</is-ok>
      <scraped-from>google blog</scraped-from>
      <source>Right to Life of Michigan's Blog </source>
      <source-url>http://rlmblog.blogspot.com/</source-url>
      <status>OK</status>
      <title>Right to Life of Michigan&amp;#39;s Blog: Health Care Reform Focus Shifts ...</title>
      <url>http://rlmblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/health-care-reform-focus-shifts-to-us.html</url>
      <weight type="integer" nil="true"></weight>
    </recent-blog>
    <recent-blog type="Commentary">
      <average-rating type="float" nil="true"></average-rating>
      <commentariable-id type="integer">300066</commentariable-id>
      <commentariable-type>Person</commentariable-type>
      <contains-term>democrat</contains-term>
      <created-at type="timestamp">Thu Nov 19 22:23:42 -0600 2009</created-at>
      <date type="timestamp">Thu Nov 19 00:00:00 -0600 2009</date>
      <excerpt>Senator Carl Levin, a Michigan Democrat who is chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said his panel will investigate how the military handled concerns about Hasan. New Wave Zarate said the shootings raise &#8220;questions about ...</excerpt>
      <fti-names>'us':9 'arm':22 'new':37 'tel':2,47 'carl':11 'chai':3,48 'rais':43 'said':25,40 'wave':38 'handl':33 'hasan':36 'levin':12 'panel':27 'senat':10,21 'shoot':42 'zarat':39 'attack':6 'nation':4,49 'servic':23 'concern':34 'increas':7 'chairman':18 'committe':24 'democrat':15 'investig':29 'michigan':14 'militari':32 'question':44 'tel-chai':1,46 'terrorist':5</fti-names>
      <id type="integer">6740064</id>
      <is-news type="boolean">false</is-news>
      <is-ok type="boolean">true</is-ok>
      <scraped-from>google blog</scraped-from>
      <source>Tel-Chai Nation </source>
      <source-url>http://telchaination.blogspot.com/</source-url>
      <status>OK</status>
      <title>Tel-Chai Nation: Terrorist attacks increasing in US</title>
      <url>http://telchaination.blogspot.com/2009/11/terrorist-attacks-increasing-in-us.html</url>
      <weight type="integer" nil="true"></weight>
    </recent-blog>
    <recent-blog type="Commentary">
      <average-rating type="float" nil="true"></average-rating>
      <commentariable-id type="integer">300066</commentariable-id>
      <commentariable-type>Person</commentariable-type>
      <contains-term>congress</contains-term>
      <created-at type="timestamp">Thu Nov 19 11:18:52 -0600 2009</created-at>
      <date type="timestamp">Thu Nov 19 00:00:00 -0600 2009</date>
      <excerpt>Just yesterday, Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) postponed the Senate Armed Services Committee&amp;#39;s scheduled briefing on Fort Hood in accordance with President Obama&amp;#39;s request for Congress to await the results of military and law enforcement ...</excerpt>
      <fti-names>'d':10 'pc':1 'arm':15 'law':40 'sen':6 'carl':7 'fort':22 'free':2 'hood':23 'mich':11 'zone':3 'await':34 'brief':20 'levin':8 'obama':28 'senat':14 'world':44 'accord':25 'd-mich':9 'enforc':41 'presid':27 'result':36 'servic':16 'postpon':12 'request':30 'schedul':19 'theodor':42 'committe':17 'congress':32 'militari':38 'yesterday':5</fti-names>
      <id type="integer">6737128</id>
      <is-news type="boolean">false</is-news>
      <is-ok type="boolean">true</is-ok>
      <scraped-from>google blog</scraped-from>
      <source>Theodore's World </source>
      <source-url>http://www.theodoresworld.net/</source-url>
      <status>OK</status>
      <title>PC Free Zone</title>
      <url>http://www.theodoresworld.net/archives/2009/11/obama_the_muslim_in_dc_trying.html</url>
      <weight type="integer" nil="true"></weight>
    </recent-blog>
    <recent-blog type="Commentary">
      <average-rating type="float" nil="true"></average-rating>
      <commentariable-id type="integer">300066</commentariable-id>
      <commentariable-type>Person</commentariable-type>
      <contains-term>congress</contains-term>
      <created-at type="timestamp">Thu Nov 19 22:23:42 -0600 2009</created-at>
      <date type="timestamp">Thu Nov 19 00:00:00 -0600 2009</date>
      <excerpt>About the Obama strategy, consisting in the continuous sending of additional troops, decided after a hesitation that has lasted over a month, Senator Carl Levin, chairman of the Armed Services Committee in Congress, said recently: ...</excerpt>
      <fti-names>'arm':39 'new':2 'carl':34 'last':29 'said':44 'send':19 'addit':21 'decid':23 'hesit':26 'levin':35 'month':32 'obama':5,13 'senat':33 'troop':22 'recent':45 'servic':40 'consist':15 'continu':18 'respond':10 'taliban':9 'chairman':36 'committe':41 'congress':43 'strategi':3,14 'socyberti':46 'afghanistan':7</fti-names>
      <id type="integer">6740063</id>
      <is-news type="boolean">false</is-news>
      <is-ok type="boolean">true</is-ok>
      <scraped-from>google blog</scraped-from>
      <source>Socyberty </source>
      <source-url>http://socyberty.com/</source-url>
      <status>OK</status>
      <title>The New Strategy of Obama in Afghanistan, The Taliban Responded ...</title>
      <url>http://socyberty.com/issues/the-new-strategy-of-obama-in-afghanistan-the-taliban-responded/</url>
      <weight type="integer" nil="true"></weight>
    </recent-blog>
    <recent-blog type="Commentary">
      <average-rating type="float" nil="true"></average-rating>
      <commentariable-id type="integer">300066</commentariable-id>
      <commentariable-type>Person</commentariable-type>
      <contains-term>senator</contains-term>
      <created-at type="timestamp">Thu Nov 19 22:23:42 -0600 2009</created-at>
      <date type="timestamp">Thu Nov 19 00:00:00 -0600 2009</date>
      <excerpt>And I have a prime example of that political theatre that Pres Obama was worried about when Senator Carl Levin brought up Rev Pat Robertson&amp;#39;s statement on Islam. The senators and expert witnesses then proceeded to put Rev Robertson on ...</excerpt>
      <fti-names>'ft':11 'pat':36 'put':50 'rev':35,51 'wit':46 'carl':31 'hood':12 'lord':2,55 'pres':24 'dinah':1,54 'islam':41 'levin':32 'littl':5 'obama':25 'polit':21 'prime':17 'senat':30,43 'still':3 'today':7 'worri':27 'exampl':18 'expert':45 'theatr':22 'brought':33 'proceed':48 'distract':6 'robertson':37,52 'statement':39</fti-names>
      <id type="integer">6740061</id>
      <is-news type="boolean">false</is-news>
      <is-ok type="boolean">true</is-ok>
      <scraped-from>google blog</scraped-from>
      <source>Dinah Lord </source>
      <source-url>http://dinahlord.typepad.com/dinah_lord/</source-url>
      <status>OK</status>
      <title>Dinah Lord: Still a little distracted today - so was the Ft. Hood ...</title>
      <url>http://dinahlord.typepad.com/dinah_lord/2009/11/still-a-little-distracted-today-so-was-the-ft-hood-jihadi-about-his-hiv-test.html</url>
      <weight type="integer" nil="true"></weight>
    </recent-blog>
    <recent-blog type="Commentary">
      <average-rating type="float" nil="true"></average-rating>
      <commentariable-id type="integer">300066</commentariable-id>
      <commentariable-type>Person</commentariable-type>
      <contains-term>democrat</contains-term>
      <created-at type="timestamp">Thu Nov 19 22:23:41 -0600 2009</created-at>
      <date type="timestamp">Thu Nov 19 00:00:00 -0600 2009</date>
      <excerpt>Carl Levin, Democratic Senator from Michigan(1979 &#8211; present) Tom Lantos, Democratic Representative from California(1981 &#8211; 2008) Arlen Specter, Democratic Senator from Pennsylvania(1981 &#8211; present) Chuck Schumer, Democratic Senator from ...</excerpt>
      <fti-names>'tom':16 '1979':14 '1981':22,30 '2008':23 'blog':4 'carl':8 'news':2,7,38 'arlen':24 'chuck':32 'lanto':17 'levin':9 'senat':11,27,35 'archiv':5 'repres':19 'firearm':6 'network':3,39 'present':15,31 'schumer':33 'specter':25 'democrat':10,18,26,34 'michigan':13 'vanguard':1,37 'california':21 'pennsylvania':29</fti-names>
      <id type="integer">6740060</id>
      <is-news type="boolean">false</is-news>
      <is-ok type="boolean">true</is-ok>
      <scraped-from>google blog</scraped-from>
      <source>Vanguard News Network </source>
      <source-url>http://www.vanguardnewsnetwork.com/</source-url>
      <status>OK</status>
      <title>Vanguard News Network &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Firearms News</title>
      <url>http://www.vanguardnewsnetwork.com/?p=6605</url>
      <weight type="integer" nil="true"></weight>
    </recent-blog>
    <recent-blog type="Commentary">
      <average-rating type="float" nil="true"></average-rating>
      <commentariable-id type="integer">300066</commentariable-id>
      <commentariable-type>Person</commentariable-type>
      <contains-term>sen\.</contains-term>
      <created-at type="timestamp">Thu Nov 19 11:18:52 -0600 2009</created-at>
      <date type="timestamp">Wed Nov 18 00:00:00 -0600 2009</date>
      <excerpt>1200 job applications for nine openings: How small firms handle hiring in today&amp;#39;s job market, by the WSJ&amp;#39;s Emily Maltby. Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) floats another small business loan program. Despite the focus on access to credit, ...</excerpt>
      <fti-names>'d':35 'job':10,23 'new':51 'sen':31 'woe':7 'wsj':27 '1200':3,9 'busi':40 'care':6 'carl':32 'firm':17 'hire':19 'link':2 'loan':41 'mich':36 'nine':13 'open':14 'anoth':38 'emili':29 'float':37 'focus':45 'handl':18 'levin':33 'resum':4 'small':16,39 'today':21 'access':47 'applic':11 'credit':49 'd-mich':34 'despit':43 'health':5 'maltbi':30 'market':24 'program':42 'wednesday':1 'businessweek':8,53 'entrepreneur':52</fti-names>
      <id type="integer">6737129</id>
      <is-news type="boolean">false</is-news>
      <is-ok type="boolean">true</is-ok>
      <scraped-from>google blog</scraped-from>
      <source>The New Entrepreneur - BusinessWeek </source>
      <source-url>http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/running_small_business/</source-url>
      <status>OK</status>
      <title>Wednesday Links: 1200 Resumes; Health Care Woes - BusinessWeek</title>
      <url>http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/running_small_business/archives/2009/11/wednesday_links.html</url>
      <weight type="integer" nil="true"></weight>
    </recent-blog>
    <recent-blog type="Commentary">
      <average-rating type="float" nil="true"></average-rating>
      <commentariable-id type="integer">300066</commentariable-id>
      <commentariable-type>Person</commentariable-type>
      <contains-term>senate</contains-term>
      <created-at type="timestamp">Thu Nov 19 11:18:52 -0600 2009</created-at>
      <date type="timestamp">Wed Nov 18 00:00:00 -0600 2009</date>
      <excerpt>Senator Carl Levin from Michigan is the chairman of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations: http://levin.senate.gov/senate/investigations/index .html which is part of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. ...</excerpt>
      <fti-names>'ina':44 'blog':42 'carl':13 'ebay':7 'html':29 'kink':5 'part':32 'cross':10 'levin':14 'secur':36 'senat':12 'affair':39 'perman':22 'steiner':45 'chairman':19 'committe':40 'homeland':35 'investig':25 'michigan':16 'auctionbyt':41 'government':38 'merchandis':11 'subcommitte':23 'cross-merchandis':9 'levin.senate.gov':27 '/senate/investigations/index':28 'levin.senate.gov/senate/investigations/index':26</fti-names>
      <id type="integer">6737131</id>
      <is-news type="boolean">false</is-news>
      <is-ok type="boolean">true</is-ok>
      <scraped-from>google blog</scraped-from>
      <source>AuctionBytes Blog by Ina Steiner </source>
      <source-url>http://blog.auctionbytes.com/cgi-bin/blog/blog.pl</source-url>
      <status>OK</status>
      <title>More Than A Few Kinks in eBay&amp;#39;s Cross-Merchandising</title>
      <url>http://blog.auctionbytes.com/cgi-bin/blog/blog.pl?/pl/2009/11/1258598510.html</url>
      <weight type="integer" nil="true"></weight>
    </recent-blog>
    <recent-blog type="Commentary">
      <average-rating type="float" nil="true"></average-rating>
      <commentariable-id type="integer">300066</commentariable-id>
      <commentariable-type>Person</commentariable-type>
      <contains-term>sen\.</contains-term>
      <created-at type="timestamp">Thu Nov 19 11:18:52 -0600 2009</created-at>
      <date type="timestamp">Wed Nov 18 00:00:00 -0600 2009</date>
      <excerpt>&#8211;Sen. Carl Levin (D-MA). &#8220;By trying [KSM and four other terrorists] in our federal courts, we demonstrate to the world that the most powerful nation on earth also trusts its judicial system &#8212; a system respected around the world.&#8221; &#8211;Sen. ...</excerpt>
      <fti-names>'d':13 'ma':14 'ksm':17 'sen':9,49 'tri':16 'also':38 'carl':10 'd-ma':12 'demo':3 'four':19 'gogu':4 'court':25 'earth':37 'feder':24 'levin':11 'power':34 'trust':39 'world':30,48 'around':46 'judici':41 'nation':35 'system':42,44 'conserv':5,50 'profund':8,53 'respect':45 'thought':6,51 'demonstr':27 'demo-gogu':2 'terrorist':21</fti-names>
      <id type="integer">6737130</id>
      <is-news type="boolean">false</is-news>
      <is-ok type="boolean">true</is-ok>
      <scraped-from>google blog</scraped-from>
      <source>Conservative Thoughts and Profundity </source>
      <source-url>http://conservativemeanderings.wordpress.com/</source-url>
      <status>OK</status>
      <title>The Demo-gogues &#171; Conservative Thoughts and Profundity</title>
      <url>http://conservativemeanderings.wordpress.com/2009/11/18/the-demo-gogues-33/</url>
      <weight type="integer" nil="true"></weight>
    </recent-blog>
    <recent-blog type="Commentary">
      <average-rating type="float" nil="true"></average-rating>
      <commentariable-id type="integer">300066</commentariable-id>
      <commentariable-type>Person</commentariable-type>
      <contains-term>democrat</contains-term>
      <created-at type="timestamp">Wed Nov 18 22:25:01 -0600 2009</created-at>
      <date type="timestamp">Wed Nov 18 00:00:00 -0600 2009</date>
      <excerpt>&#8220;Senator Carl Levin, a Michigan Democrat who heads the Armed Services Committee, acknowledged last week that &#8220;the price is very heavy&#8221; when missile strikes mistakenly kill civilians, but he said the strikes were &#8220;an extremely effective ...</excerpt>
      <fti-names>'arm':22 'use':6 'war':7 'call':2 'carl':14 'head':20 'kill':38 'last':26 'line':51 'plum':50 'rudi':1 'said':42 'week':27 'heavi':33 'levin':15 'obama':4 'price':30 'senat':13 'effect':48 'extrem':47 'missil':35 'servic':23 'strike':36,44 'terror':9 'sentenc':12 'civilian':39 'committe':24 'democrat':18 'michigan':17 'mistaken':37 'acknowledg':25</fti-names>
      <id type="integer">6734630</id>
      <is-news type="boolean">false</is-news>
      <is-ok type="boolean">true</is-ok>
      <scraped-from>google blog</scraped-from>
      <source>The Plum Line </source>
      <source-url>http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/</source-url>
      <status>OK</status>
      <title>Rudy Calls On Obama To Use &#8220;War&#8221; And &#8220;Terror&#8221; In Same Sentence ...</title>
      <url>http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/terrorism/rudy-calls-on-obama-admin-to-use-war-and-terror-in-same-sentence/</url>
      <weight type="integer" nil="true"></weight>
    </recent-blog>
  </recent-blogs>
</person>
