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      <excerpt>...have already received campaign endorsements.&#160; Incumbent Catholic politicians such as Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.),&#160; Sen Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) and Sen Kristen Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) have had over $700,000 distributed to them throughout the years by EMIL</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...and of Congress is to represent citizens of the country,&quot; he said. &quot;I urge my colleagues to support that position.&quot; Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., managing the spending bill on the floor, said Republicans missed the boat &#160;to make changes to the census. </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...for abortion,&quot; Lerner writes. She notes that a vote in the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee on Sen. Barbara Mikulski's (D-Md.) amendment to require coverage of basic women's health services &quot;went exactly along pro- and anti-choice </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...to merge the different versions of health reform legislation, policymakers are under pressure from all sides of the issue. Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.), a member of the Senate HELP Committee, and 24 colleagues recently signed a letter urging a ban on g</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...of the 11 a.m. public meeting, Tarburton and others, including representatives from the offices of Sens. Ben Cardin and Barbara Mikulski and U.S. Rep. Roscoe Bartlett, gathered around a utilities division van. In the back, utilities worker Brandi Dudley</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...to write. It is very relaxing and can really open up your mind. I love to scrapbook, c...&#160;&#160;-&#160;&#160;Full profile Recently, Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) thought it morally repugnant and offensive that some private insurers would demand sterilization of fem</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>Thanks to your emails and letters, Sen. Cardin showed leadership in the face of strident opposition and deserves our praise. Now it&amp;#39;s time to start talking to Senator Barbara Mikulski. Once the bill gets to the Senate floor we will need ...</excerpt>
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