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      <excerpt>...U.S. and the G-20: Remaking the International Economic Architecture.&#8221; - Senators Patty Murray (D-Wash.), Jack Reed (D-R.I.), Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Kay Hagan (D-N.C.), Ted Kaufman (D-Del.) and Administration Trade Official Ron Ki</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...not act, these costs will break the backs of the American people,&#8221; Klobuchar said. The senator attributed the numbers to Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) Klobuchar went on to outline what she would like to see brought about through significant reform. &#8220;It is</excerpt>
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      <excerpt> The environmentalists are placing their hopes for a cleaner Chesapeake Bay with legislation introduced last month by Senator Ben Cardin and Congressman ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt> WASHINGTON - Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) last week asked Department of Defense (DoD) Secretary Robert Gates for the numbers of US war troops deployed to ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt> &amp;quot;Conventional wisdom is that you have until the spring to get controversial issues moving,&amp;quot; said Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.), a lead co-author of the climate ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt> Instead of Sen. Ben Cardin&amp;#39;s oppressive &amp;quot;clean up the bay&amp;quot; program, let&amp;#39;s take the billions of Environmental Protection Agency dollars and use them to lay ... </excerpt>
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      <title>Your View: Smart growth policy has not served Maryland</title>
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      <excerpt> Ben Cardin, a Maryland Democrat, wants to determine if the antidepressants have anything to do with the trend. He says in his letter to Defence Secretary ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt> Cap-and-trade, Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD) eagerly observed, is &amp;quot;the most significant revenue-generating proposal of our time.&amp;quot; Not one congressman even read ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt> Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) is scheduled to chair the panel, which has lined up officials from the Department of Justice, FBI, NSA and Department of Homeland ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>But as Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD) said, &#8220;Nothing in this legislation diminishes an American&amp;#39;s freedom of religion, freedom of speech or press or the freedom to assemble,&#8221; because the law &#8220;targets acts, not speech. ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>But as Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD) said, &#8220;Nothing in this legislation diminishes an American&amp;#39;s freedom of religion, freedom of speech or press or the freedom to assemble,&#8221; because the law &#8220;targets acts, not speech. ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>JONESTOWN Jonestown and Nelpine Heights residents are seeing the light at the end of the tunnel after a visit from U.S. Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Md., on Monday. Cardin was at Coppins A.M.E. Church in Jonestown, a small unincorporated ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>The senator attributed the numbers to Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) Klobuchar went on to outline what she would like to see brought about through significant reform. &#8220;It is my hope that no one will have to choose between necessary medical ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>(7.22.09) -- In a scene which is literally being played out all over the country, Maryland resident Robert Broadus blasts Democrat Senator Ben Cardin over Barack Obama&amp;#39;s proposed health care reform legislaion. ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>Senator ben Cardin Wants To Blow YOUR Thirty-Five Billion Dollars. Quiet Rockland - No New Flights Over Rockland County, NY John J. Tormey III, Esq. P.O. Box 918. Pearl River, NY 10965 USA (845) 735-9691 (phone) (845) 735-0476 (fax) ...</excerpt>
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