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      <excerpt>...contain it and ultimately defeat it&quot; by continually &quot;evolving the tools&quot; it uses to pursue its enemies.  Committee member Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Michigan, questioned whether politics was affecting the decision-making process. He said &quot;tools and methods&quot; us</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...contain it and ultimately defeat it&quot; by continually &quot;evolving the tools&quot; it uses to pursue its enemies.  Committee member Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Michigan, questioned whether politics was affecting the decision-making process. He said &quot;tools and methods&quot; us</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...national headcount, the Census Bureau will be hiring as many as one million temporary workers across the country. U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers, a Howell Republican, put out a news release to that effect this morning, wanting to get the word out to people in Mi</excerpt>
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      <excerpt> The DNC announced the ads against Mike Rogers of Howell, Thaddeus McCotter of Livonia, Dave Camp of Midland and Fred Upton of St. Joseph. ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt> US Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Brighton, has pushed for greater use of electronic recordkeeping in hospitals to save costs. &amp;quot;I firmly believe the expansion of ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt> Contact Rep. Mike Rogers (202-225-3261; 324 Cannon House Office Building, Washington, DC 20515), Sen. Richard Shelby (202-224-5744; 304 Russell Senate ... </excerpt>
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      <title>Letter: Tell your leaders to act to repeal Medicare&amp;#39;s growth rate</title>
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      <excerpt> At Elmira College, about 25 to 30 influenza-like cases have been reported, but none confirmed as being caused by the H1N1 virus, said spokesman Mike Rogers. ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt> By far the largest amount, $1.2 million was pulled in by Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Saks, who ranked No. 23 on the House cash list, just behind No. ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt> But I would love to see someone like Mike Rogers of blogactive.com expose these ministers, whether we call their poison hypocrisy or something else. ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>Our servicemen are already being hampered by this practice in Afghanistan according to Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich: &#8220;I witnessed it myself, talked to the people on the ground,&#8221; he said. &#8220;What you have is two very separate missions ...</excerpt>
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