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      <excerpt>...years. Rep. Steve LaTourette, R-Ohio, wants to tap into unspent stimulus funds, but House Appropriations Committee Chairman Dave Obey, D-Wis., opposes it. Rep. Jim Clyburn, D-S.C., proposes a 4-6-year program that would be financed by a securities trans</excerpt>
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      <title>Spending vs. jobs a Dem dilemma</title>
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      <excerpt>...Deval Patrick is scheduled to focus on the health-care proposals being debated in Congress. Doyle is also meeting with U.S. Rep Dave Obey, D-Wausau, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., about health care.  You must be logged in to leave a comm</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...in January. On Thursday, as thousands of conservatives protested the House bill outside the Capitol, local residents visited Rep. Dave Obey's Wausau office to urge him to vote against the bill. Obey, who spoke to the demonstrators by phone from Washingt</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...scheduled to focus on the health-care proposals being debated in Congress. Doyle is also meeting with Wisconsin Congressman Dave Obey and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to talk about health care. MILWAUKEE Your Thanksgiving dinner could cost more in </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...would be exempt from an upcoming federal clean-air rule while navigating the Great Lakes as a result of intervention by Rep. Dave Obey and another powerful congressman. In addition to the shield for 13 steamships, 40 other diesel fuel burning ships woul</excerpt>
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      <title>Lawmakers intervene for Great Lakes ships</title>
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      <excerpt>...prosecutor Sean Duffy has impressed national Republican campaign officials with his early fundraising in his bid to unseat Rep. Dave Obey. In his first three months as a candidate, Duffy collected $139,471, according to his campaign committee's Oct. 15 </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...prosecutor Sean Duffy has impressed national Republican campaign officials with his early fundraising in his bid to unseat Rep. Dave Obey. In his first three months as a candidate, Duffy collected $139,471, according to his campaign committee's Oct. 15 </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...a Milwaukee engineering firm, he said. &quot;There's also about $500,000 in the 2010 federal budget through the work of (U.S. Rep. Dave) Obey,&quot; Larson said. Mullins Dairy neighbors the agriculture farm and is interested in piping the methane produced for ene</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...Protection Agency rule that aims to reduce sulfur emissions. The exemption &#8212; pushed by Rep. Jim Oberstar, D-Minn., and Rep. Dave Obey, D-Wis., &#8212; was attached to the Interior Appropriations bill. &#8220;Laying up half of the Great Lakes fleet in one fell</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...He said he doesn't pay for the attending physician service because he doesn't use it. Daniel Bachhuber, spokesman for Rep. Dave Obey, D-Wausau, says the congressman pays the attending physician fee &quot;as a supplement to his Blue Cross Blue Shield plan. He</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>It Holds not that I make n&amp;#39;t care about the province of things, but I am besides realistic and cognize that speaking to my `` small &amp;#39;&amp;#39; representative will ensue in naught but defeat since Dave Obey makes n&amp;#39;t care about anythign that ...</excerpt>
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