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      <excerpt>...Andy Pasztor Sen. Jim DeMint, a Republican from South Carolina, plans to introduce a bill that would break a taboo in the airline industry: allowing airlines to use information from cockpit voice recorders in cases against pilots they want to discipline</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...for less than two weeks. Using Senate rules that allow one senator to block nominations and legislation, South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint had held up Shannon's nomination since July in opposition to the administration's handling of the crisis in Honduras.</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...to the very real violence targeted at minorities, including the disabled and gays. In his spirited defense of dirty minds, Sen. Jim DeMint stood on the Senate floor and offered a list of irrational pleas to prevent the hate crimes measure from passing. </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...Jim DeMint's (R-S.C.) is resurrecting the debate about federal term limits with a new push to limit service by Members of the House and Senate to a maximum of twelve years. The main reason he is renewing efforts on this front is to curb the growth of go</excerpt>
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      <title>Jillian Bandes: Federal Term Limits: DeMint Is Not Deterred</title>
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      <excerpt>...failure of the president's trillion-dollar stimulus have gone from comical to embarrassing,&quot; said South Carolina Republican Sen. Jim DeMint. The White House didn't respond to repeated requests for comment. Ed Pound, a spokesman for the Recovery Accounta</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...535 members of members of the House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate , some politicians have supported the effort. Sen. Jim Demint (R - S.C.) spoke with Greta Van Susteren on FOX News Tuesday night and said, &quot;Thousands of pink slips [are] coming t</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...up the dismal failure of the president's trillion-dollar stimulus have gone from comical to embarrassing,&quot; said U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint, a Greenville Republican. &quot;The government Web site charged with reporting waste, fraud and abuse is its very own worst o</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...slips, members of Congress will host a press conference at 11 a.m. at the House Triangle outside the U.S. Capitol today. Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., Reps. Trent Franks, R-Ariz., Steve King, R-Iowa, Tom Price, R-Ga., and Chris Smith, R-N.J., are among those</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...Into a Federal Bailout? - Reps. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.), Chris Smith (R-N.J.), Steve King (R-Iowa), Tom Price (R-Ga.) &amp; Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) hold a news conference to announce their &#8220;Pink Slip&#8221; protest. - House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.)</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...of the Capitol to spend up to $150,000 for the engravings, which werent part of the visitor centers original design. Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., sponsored the resolution to fix what he contended was a whitewash of the nations religious heritage. The millio</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...Democrat should get a pass on claiming it&#8217;s simply &#8220;procedural&#8221; make sure you read Sen. DeMint&#8217;s post at Red State: Sen Jim DeMint summarized the battle very clearly: To begin debate on this new version of Obamacare, Reid will play a shell game.</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>Throughout the show, officials like Sen. Jim DeMint, Congressman Joe Wilson, and SCGOP Chairman Karen Floyd called in to congratulate Cohen. But then he revealed a secret &#8212; something the SCGOP wrote about on their website Thursday. ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>Ron Paul and Sen Jim DeMint have a singularly intelligent piece in the Wall Street Journal on the issue. I don&amp;#39;t support every single thing they say, but I find them saying sensible things. Decide for yourself. ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>Read the following great explanation by on why the Saturday vote is so important, and why no Democrat should get a pass on claiming it&amp;#39;s simply &#8220;procedural&#8221; make sure you read Sen. DeMint&amp;#39;s post at Red State: Sen Jim DeMint summarized ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) and Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) make the  case for auditing the Federal Reserve in today&#8217;s Wall Street  Journal:  For nearly a century the Federal Reserve has operated in the  shadows, away from the prying eyes of Congress, journa</excerpt>
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