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      <excerpt>Leonard Boswell and Tom Latham can breathe a little easier. Boswell might be vulnerable to a strong Republican challenger, they note, but the results from ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...members have shown bipartisan support for high-speed rail funding. In July, they defeated an amendment sponsored by Rep. Tom Latham (R-Iowa) to cut the funding for high-speed rail projects to $1 billion, the amount originally requested in President Bara</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>US Rep. Tom Latham is guilty of perpetuating a myth/hoax that has been circulating on the Internet in various forms for several months. ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...Rep. Tom Latham is guilty of perpetuating a myth/hoax that has been circulating on the Internet in various forms for several months. As the guest on Iowa Press Oct. 11, he stated that we have three times the oil reserves as the entire Middle East. These</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>&#8220;For the broad view, you can look at what Congressman (Tom) Latham (4th District in Iowa) has done. Look at the number of bills and amendments he has passed ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>... to efforts to help Iowa recover from the devastating floods of 2008,&#8221; noted Congressman Tom Latham, the ranking Republican on the THUD Subcommittee. ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>... a Massachusetts Democrat who heads the transportation appropriations subcommittee, and Tom Latham of Iowa, the subcommittee&amp;#39;s ranking Republican.</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>To my knowledge, Republican Tom Latham (IA-04) is Iowa&amp;#39;s only incumbent in Congress with no likely challenger yet. Steve Rathje and probably Mariannette ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>WASHINGTON, DC &#8211; Iowa Congressman Tom Latham issued the following statement following the approval by the U.S. House of Representatives of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi&amp;#39;s $1.2 trillion health care legislation: ... Washington, DC &#8211; Exactly  three years</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>Barbara Lee, D, CA-9, Tom Latham, R, IA-4. John B. Larson, D, CT-1, Jerry Lewis, R, CA-41. Jim Langevin, D, RI-2, John Linder, R, GA-7. Rick Larsen, D, WA-2, Frank D. Lucas, R, OK-3. Stephen F. Lynch, D, MA-9, Dan Lungren, R, CA-3 ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>Following the example of Tom Latham &#8211; modeling his campaign after TL&amp;#39;s , don&amp;#39;t reinvent the wheel. Matt Schultz &#8211; Candidate for Secretary of State. Currently a Council Bluffs city councilman. 2nd term &#8211; 4th year &#8211; Attorney ... -Iowa&amp;#39;s  </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>Congressman Tom Latham, a Republican from Ames, plans to vote no. &#8221;I want to have this vote. I mean, I want to have people on record (about) the government take-over of health care, whether they support it or not,&#8221; Latham said this ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>WASHINGTON (November 4, 2009, 7 PM EST) &#8211; The House Democratic leadership announced that it will propose a &#8220;Rule&#8221; on the health care bill, H.R. 3962, that will insert language proposed by Rep. Brad Ellsworth (D-In.), and exclude a House  vote on an a</excerpt>
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