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      <excerpt>...first $4 million of that remaining money is included in President Barack Obama's budget proposal for 2011. U.S. Rep. Heath Shuler's office has referred to the agreement as a &quot;done deal,&quot; and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar was in Swain County for a signi</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>BRYSON CITY &#8212; For U.S. Rep. Heath Shuler, Swain County's road to nowhere served as a place of solitude to pray for guidance on major life decisions.
I went there to decide where I was going to go to college. I went there to ask my wife to marry me. I</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...construction of the road would be both hideously expensive and hideously destructive, and we applaud the efforts of Rep. Heath Shuler, D-Waynesville and a native son of Swain County, to reach a cash settlement. There are still folks in Swain vociferousl</excerpt>
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      <excerpt> At the ceremony will be US Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, US Rep. Heath Shuler, whose district includes Swain County, the county&amp;#39;s Board of ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt> ... future assistant coaches (Alex Van Pelt of Buffalo and Scott Milanovich of the Montreal Alouettes) and a future US congressman (Heath Shuler, ... </excerpt>
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