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      <excerpt>...Advocates on and off Capitol Hill must weigh one program against another.  &quot;There's going to be a very strong push for this,&quot; Rep. Dennis Cardoza, D-Merced, said Thursday. The massive Senate health care package made public Wednesday night is the counter</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...approved by a 395-31 vote authorizes about $2.2 billion annually for the next five years. It includes an amendment by Rep. Dennis Cardoza, D-Merced, that gives grant priority to high-unemployment areas. &quot;This will provide a little extra help,&quot; Cardoza s</excerpt>
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      <excerpt> 11 Sun-Star, Rep. Dennis Cardoza put it in writing as to why he voted in favor of The Making Health Care Affordable Act. In an e-mail response to a news ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt> Here&amp;#39;s a few: Rep. Anh Cao &#8212; the lone GOP vote &#8212; said it was &amp;quot;promises of future support for New Orleans.&amp;quot; Rep. Dennis Cardoza was assured he&amp;#39;d get drought ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt> Once again, in Michael Der Manouel&amp;#39;s commentary in The Bee, he has chosen Congressmen Jim Costa and Dennis Cardoza as the targets of his partisan political ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt> ... ice cream business in 2005 after Gary Condit had lost his Northern San Joaquin Valley congressional seat in a 2002 primary challenge by Dennis Cardoza. ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt> US Rep. Dennis Cardoza, D-CA, who switched his votes the same year, has taken nearly $10000 from the PAC and its supporters since then. US Rep. ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt> Our Rep. Dennis Cardoza is called a &amp;quot;Blue Dog&amp;quot; so we will believe he is really conservative. We all know that he voted for the stimulus bill and we also ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt> James McGovern (MA), Alcee Hastings (FL), Dennis Cardoza (CA), Michael Arcuri (NY), Ed Perlmutter (CO), and Jared Polis (CO) &#8211; voting against the Foxx ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt> Editor: Thank you, Rep. Dennis Cardoza for standing firm and voting for House Resolution 3962 Saturday night. I understand the kind of pressure you were ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>When Foxx finally yielded her time on the floor, Rep. Dennis Cardoza (D-CA) passionately rebuked her: CARDOZA: Today, what I&amp;#39;m hearing on the floor really takes the cake. The gentlelady from North Carolina, in her statement just now, ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>Anyway, she was slapped down by Dennis Cardoza (D-CA): CARDOZA: Today, what I&amp;#39;m hearing on the floor really takes the cake. The gentlelady from North Carolina, in her statement just now, indicated that the Republican GOP had passed the ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>During a debate on the House floor today over designating 21 miles of the Molalla River as &#8220;wild and scenic,&#8221; Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), who opposes the legislation, tried to claim a progressive environmental record for her party. ... Click  here to re</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>&amp;quot;They love to engage in revisionist history. Shift now to Democratic Rep. Dennis Cardoza of North Carolina: Today, what I&amp;#39;m hearing on the floor really takes the cake. The gentlelady from North Carolina, in her statement just now, ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>An apalled Rep. Dennis Cardoza took to the floor to take this vicious, lying southern piece of shit own. From Think Progress: During a debate on the House floor today over designating 21 miles of the Molalla River as &#8220;wild and scenic,&#8221; ...</excerpt>
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