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      <excerpt>...no longer have jobs. However, Ware said that all but one of Craig's former staffers now have jobs. Some landed posts with Sen. Jim Risch, who was elected to replace Craig. &quot;I think the goal for Sen. Craig and our senior management was to reward people f</excerpt>
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      <excerpt> Washington, DC &#8211; US Senator Jim Risch is preparing a letter to the US Army prosecutor urging him to add an additional count of murder against Maj. ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt> Evan Bayh (D-IN) and Jim Risch (R-ID) and signed by 71 senators, its managers held it until Aug. 10 in order to get the maximum number of signatures. ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...Senate Resolution 340, which asks the Senate to designate a Veterans History Project Week. Crapo's cosponsors are Sens. Jim Risch, R-Idaho, Blanche Lincoln, D-Ark., Richard Lugar, R-Ind., John Rockefeller, D-W.V., and Jean Shaheen, D-N.H. The resolution</excerpt>
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      <excerpt> Thirty senators voted against the amendment, two of which were our own Idaho senators, Mike Crapo and Jim Risch. Using appalling partisan reasoning, ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt> Washington, DC&#8212;US Senator Jim Risch issued the following statement calling on Idahoans to remember the victims of the Fort Hood shooting and to honor those ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>We asked Senator Jim Risch (R-ID) for his reaction to the story, and he gave us this statement, &#8220;The facts stated are clearly false, unreliable and should come as no surprise since unemployment rates are the highest in decades. ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>Posted by Idaho conservative blogger at 5:25 PM. Labels: Mike Simpson Walt Minnick Jim Risch Adam Graham Chick Heileson Interview. 11:30 PM | Permalink &amp;middot; Technorati Tags: Idaho federal delegation, US Congressman Mike Simpson ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>Sen. Jon Kyl Rep. Phil Gingrey Rep. Nathan Deal Rep. John Linder Rep. Kay Granger Rep. John L. Mica Rep. Walter B. Jones Sen. Jim Risch Rep. Ed Whitfield Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner Rep. Virginia Foxx Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>BOISE - US Sen. Jim Risch wants an additional murder charge filed against Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, suspected in the Texas attack on US soldiers, because one victim was pregnant. Risch said he is... Nov 15th, 2009, at 6:25am CST.</excerpt>
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