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      <excerpt>...Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (Vt.) and Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin (Mich.) said Graham's amendment would bar the Obama administration from pursuing justice.  &#8220;If this amendment passes,</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...Bout used a network of shell companies around the world, including a dozen U.S. corporations, to carry out his activities, Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., said during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing. One Delaware-based ho</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...Peter Galbraith, the former top American official at the U.N. mission in Afghanistan, told BBC Radio 4.  In September, Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., called for increasing the size of the Afghan army and police &quot;much faster than presently planned&quot; instead of</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...Bout used a network of shell companies around the world, including a dozen U.S. corporations, to carry out his activities, Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., said during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing. One Delaware-based ho</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...headquarters in the city of Archangel, Russia and is also seen in several still photographs depicting life there. Sen. Carl Levin also appears in the documentary film, recalling how the duty of The Polar Bears was known as &#8220;the acid test of loyalty to</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...conditions, watching their buddies die, knowing that all other soldiers fighting in the World War had already come home.&#8221; Sen. Carl Levin appears in the documentary film, recalling how the duty of The Polar Bears was known as &#8220;the acid test of loyal</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...hired,&quot; Peter Galbraith, the former top American official at the U.N. mission in Afghanistan, told BBC Radio 4. In September, Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., called for increasing the size of the Afghan army and police &quot;much faster than presently planned&quot; ins</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...Peter Galbraith, the former top American official at the U.N. mission in Afghanistan, told BBC Radio 4. In September, Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., called for increasing the size of the Afghan army and police &quot;much faster than presently planned&quot; instead of </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...first emergency extension and 20 weeks of the states extended benefits program -- between May and the end of the year.  Sen. Carl Levin, Michigan Democrat, said that during the debate, about 7,000 unemployed Americans lost their benefits each day and th</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...Stabenow added, &quot;This bill will hold countries accountable for violating our trade rules.&quot; Sens. Russ Feingold (D-WI), Carl Levin (D-MI), and Arlen Specter (D-PA) are all original cosponsors of the bill. The Brown-Stabenow Super 301 bill would ensure th</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...4, 2009 -- WASHINGTON -- U.S. Senator Carl Levin, D-Mich., filed the following floor statement today regarding the Senate&#8217;s consideration of a bill that will extend unemployment benefits. Mr. President, the measure we have before us is vital to the th</excerpt>
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