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      <excerpt>...County Veterans Cemetery is being pushed as a potential national cemetery to be maintained by the federal government. U.S. Sen. Jon Tester says he got a provision included in an appropriations bill requiring the government to study building a national c</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...Jon Tester, D-Mont., will hold a telephone town hall conference today to discuss health care with Montanans. More than 14,000 Montanans participated in Tester's two previous health care telephone town halls earlier this fall. Tester's office uses a syst</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...could use another air mission to go along with its fleet of older F-15 fighters. Schweitzer and Guard leaders asked U.S. Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., for his help Thursday in securing the new mission. &quot;You want to be prepared for what could come next,&quot; Sch</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>On the Senate level, McChesney contributed financially to Senators Russell Feingold of Wisconsin, Sherrod Brown of Ohio, Jon Tester of Montana, and James Webb of Virginia, and Connecticut Senate candidate Ned Lamont. ... McChesney also  contributed to the </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>He&amp;#39;s lagging all other statewide officials, including Jon Tester (56/25) and Brian Schweitzer (62/20). The problem seems to be that Baucus gets only 67% approval among Dems, compared with 81% for Tester and 82% for Schweitzer; a plurality  of ... Seein</excerpt>
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      <source>Swing State Project </source>
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      <excerpt>As a critical Second Amendment case goes before the United States Supreme Court, U.S. Senators Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX) and Jon Tester (D-MT), and Congressmen Mike Ross (D-AR) and Mark Souder (R-IN) are gathering signatures for an amicus  curiae ... Now</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>He also noted that the veterans population included under-served populations such as (from prepared remarks, except for a nod to Senator Jon Tester, more or less the same as what he stated to the committee) &amp;quot;Native American Veterans, ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>DETAILS: With only a week to go, polls showed State Sen. Jon Tester and State Auditor John Morrison at a dead heat in the June 2006 Democratic primary race for US Senate. Tester operative Missoula attorney Pat Smith directly contacted ...</excerpt>
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      <title>Strategic Weaknesses of Sen. Tester&amp;#39;s Wildlands Logging Bill</title>
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      <excerpt>These states are Arkansas (Sen. Blanche Lincoln), Louisiana (Sen. Mary Landrieu), Montana (Senators Max Baucus and Jon Tester), Virginia (Senators Mark Warner and Jim Webb), and Maine (Senators Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins). ...</excerpt>
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      <title>Help C4L Fight For Health Freedom on TV!</title>
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