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      <excerpt>...after the Senate passed its version of a military and construction bill that included $83 million for Fort Campbell, U.S. Rep. John Tanner said just as much focus is needed on helping the veterans living in Montgomery County. Fort Campbell will see some</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...plan, one of Tennessee's representatives urged continued support for a 140-bed veterans nursing home in Clarksville. Rep. John Tanner, who represents west and middle Tennessee in the House, included in the House version of the plan language calling for </excerpt>
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      <excerpt> City councillor John Tanner, executive member for a cleaner, greener city, said a food waste collection should have come first. Mr Tanner said: &#8220;Everybody ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt> 7 when they voted &amp;quot;no&amp;quot; on this bill, including representatives from my home state of Tennessee &#8212; John Tanner and Marsha Blackburn. ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...Control and Prevention and to local health departments. Some members, including Reps. Lincoln Davis, D-Pall Mall, and John Tanner, D-Union City, have recorded public service television spots through the Health and Human Services Department, directing pe</excerpt>
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      <excerpt> Lincoln Davis, D-Pall Mall, and John Tanner, D-Union City, have recorded public service television spots through the Health and Human Services Department, ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt> There are a lot of perennials in this mix &#8212; Chet Edwards, John Tanner, Baron Hill, Bart Gordon &#8212; but it&amp;#39;s been a while since those guys have faced such a ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt> Ike Skelton (D-MO), Mike McIntyre (D-NC), John Tanner (D-TN), Lincoln Davis (D-TN), Dan Boren (D-OK), Heath Shuler (D-NC) -- only one was elected within ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt> Leading the&amp;quot;co-del&amp;quot; is Rep. John Tanner (D-TN) who said that this was the first time for most of the group to have been in Ireland. &amp;quot;We&amp;#39;re impressed by what ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt> Commenting on the visit, US Congressman John Tanner, Representative for Tennessee&amp;#39;s 8th District in West and Middle Tennessee and Chair of the House Foreign ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>The Clarksville (TN) Leaf Chronicle (11/19, Lowary, 19K) reports, &amp;quot;A day after the Senate passed its version of a military and Veterans Affairs construction spending plan,&amp;quot; US Rep. John Tanner (D-TN) &amp;quot;urged continued support for a ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>Ike Skelton (MO-04), John Spratt (SC-05), Bart Gordon (TN-06), John Tanner (TN-08) and Rick Boucher (VA-09) are goners next year. Their eventual vulnerability is highly dependent on the quality of GOP nominees and the discipline of ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>EDINBURGH &#8211; U.S. Rep. John Tanner discussed the future of the war in Afghanistan and Pakistan in meetings with top NATO leaders while presiding over NATO Parliamentary Assembly sessions in Edinburgh. The Parliamentary Assembly is NATO&amp;#39;s ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>Bart Stupak, a Michigan Democrat (and Catholic) who sponsored the amendment, together with Pennsylvania Republican representative Joseph Pitts (an evangelical Christian), promised that they and other Democrats and Republicans would block  ... Joining them </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...include Sens. Mark Pryor (D-Ark.) and Bill Nelson (D-Fla.), and Congressmen Frank Wolf (R-Va.), Mike McIntyre (D-N.C.), John Tanner (D-Tenn.) and Lincoln Davis (D-Tenn.). Among the things that led to questions about the group's tax-exempt church status </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>There have also been reports that Rep. Heath Shuler (D-N.C.) is a resident, though he refused to confirm that to his local paper. Other members of the group reportedly include Sens. Mark Pryor (D-Ark.) and Bill Nelson (D-Fla.), and  Congressmen Frank Wolf </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>John Tanner (D-TN) and Dave Reichert (R-WA) announced that the National Education Association (NEA) endorsed their Teacher Tax Relief Act (H.R. 3758). The bill would increase and make permanent the maximum tax deduction available for ...</excerpt>
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