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      <excerpt>...tour to promote her memoir, &quot;Going Rogue: An American Life&quot; will headline the Gridiron Club winter dinner here--along with Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.). Palin, the outspoken 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee, will be the Republican speaker at the Dec. 5</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...of federal funds.&#8221; The Democrats who signed the letter include such senior members as Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank (Mass.), Intelligence Committee Chairman Silvestre Reyes (Texas) and Rep. John Murtha (Pa.), chairman of the Defen</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...Guard and the Department of Homeland Security. The letter is signed by U.S. Sens. John F. Kerry and Paul G. Kirk and U.S. Reps. Barney Frank, James P. McGovern and William D. Delahunt. Coast Guard officials did not respond to an inquiry about whether th</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...Democratic congressman was present for a marijuana bust at his partner's home in Maine in 2007. Rep. Barney Frank admitted Friday that he was sitting on the porch of his partner&#8217;s Maine home when police came to arrest his partner for marijuana possess</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...Life.&quot;  The program should be as tasty as the sirloin at the Dec. 5 dinner. Palin will be the Republican speaker and Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, will represent the Democrats. A just published biog</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...of the House Financial Services Committee Barney Frank (D-Mass.) said Friday that on the economic front, America received good news and bad news today following the Labor Department&#8217;s announcement of a 10.2% unemployment rate. &#8220;Although 190,000 more</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...out supervisory powers for both the Federal Reserve and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. The House bill, prepared by Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., chairman of the House Financial Services Committee would allow both agencies to keep their supervisory ro</excerpt>
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