<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<person>
  <biography nil="true"></biography>
  <bioguideid>B001265</bioguideid>
  <birthday type="date">1962-03-30</birthday>
  <congress-office>144 Russell Senate Office Building</congress-office>
  <contact-webform>http://begich.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=EmailSenator</contact-webform>
  <district nil="true"></district>
  <email nil="true"></email>
  <fax>202-224-2354</fax>
  <firstname>Mark</firstname>
  <fti-names>'d':4 'ak':5 'sen':1 'mark':2,6,8 'begich':3,7,9</fti-names>
  <gender>M</gender>
  <id type="integer">412326</id>
  <lastname>Begich</lastname>
  <metavid-id nil="true"></metavid-id>
  <middlename nil="true"></middlename>
  <name>Sen. Mark Begich [D, AK]</name>
  <nickname nil="true"></nickname>
  <osid>N00029901</osid>
  <page-views-count type="integer">4963</page-views-count>
  <party>Democrat</party>
  <phone>202-224-3004</phone>
  <religion nil="true"></religion>
  <state>AK</state>
  <sunlight-nickname nil="true"></sunlight-nickname>
  <title>Sen.</title>
  <unaccented-name>Mark Begich</unaccented-name>
  <url nil="true"></url>
  <user-approval type="float">3.57142857142857</user-approval>
  <watchdog-id nil="true"></watchdog-id>
  <website>http://begich.senate.gov/public/</website>
  <youtube-id nil="true"></youtube-id>
  <recent-news type="array">
    <recent-news type="Commentary">
      <average-rating type="float" nil="true"></average-rating>
      <commentariable-id type="integer">412326</commentariable-id>
      <commentariable-type>Person</commentariable-type>
      <contains-term>sen\.</contains-term>
      <created-at type="timestamp">Sat Nov 07 11:05:38 -0600 2009</created-at>
      <date type="timestamp">Sat Nov 07 00:00:00 -0600 2009</date>
      <excerpt>...jobs to care for a disabled veteran. That can lead to depression and lack of health care for the caregivers, Akaka said. Sen. Mark Begich, D-Alaska, said providing support  for veterans is an obligation of lawmakers. &quot;Yet, even as Veterans Day approache</excerpt>
      <fti-names>'d':37 'ask':4 'day':53 'job':11 'sen':33 'yet':49 'bill':10 'care':13,27 'drop':7 'even':50 'hold':8 'lack':24 'lead':20 'mark':34 'said':32,39 'akaka':31 'oblig':46 'tulsa':55 'world':56 'alaska':38 'begich':35 'coburn':5 'disabl':16 'health':26 'lawmak':48 'provid':40 'caregiv':30 'depress':22 'support':3,41 'veteran':1,17,43,52 'approach':54 'd-alaska':36</fti-names>
      <id type="integer">6608301</id>
      <is-news type="boolean">true</is-news>
      <is-ok type="boolean">true</is-ok>
      <scraped-from>daylife</scraped-from>
      <source>Tulsa World</source>
      <source-url>http://www.tulsaworld.com/</source-url>
      <status>OK</status>
      <title>Veterans and supporters ask Coburn to drop hold on bill</title>
      <url>http://www.tulsaworld.com/site/articlepath.aspx?articleid=20091107_16_A1_WASHIN225160&amp;rss_lnk=11</url>
      <weight type="integer" nil="true"></weight>
    </recent-news>
    <recent-news type="Commentary">
      <average-rating type="float" nil="true"></average-rating>
      <commentariable-id type="integer">412326</commentariable-id>
      <commentariable-type>Person</commentariable-type>
      <contains-term>sen\.</contains-term>
      <created-at type="timestamp">Wed Nov 04 22:30:05 -0600 2009</created-at>
      <date type="timestamp">Thu Nov 05 00:00:00 -0600 2009</date>
      <excerpt>...announcement, Heun said that with new mayor Dan Sullivan taking office, the decision to leave made sense. U.S. Sen. Mark Begich, D-Alaska, said he recommended Heun to the Obama administration for the job. Heun was police chief when Begich was Anchorage </excerpt>
      <fti-names>'d':29 'dan':14 'job':41 'new':12 'sen':25 'u.s':24 'heun':8,34,42 'ktuu':50 'leav':21 'made':22 'mark':26 'said':9,31 'sens':23 'take':16 'chief':3,45 'decis':19 'mayor':13 'nomin':4 'obama':37 'offic':17 'polic':44 'alaska':30 'begich':27,47 'former':1 'announc':7 'marshal':6 'anchorag':2,49 'd-alaska':28 'sullivan':15 'administr':38 'recommend':33</fti-names>
      <id type="integer">6581882</id>
      <is-news type="boolean">true</is-news>
      <is-ok type="boolean">true</is-ok>
      <scraped-from>daylife</scraped-from>
      <source>KTUU</source>
      <source-url>http://www.ktuu.com/</source-url>
      <status>OK</status>
      <title>Former Anchorage chief nominated for marshal</title>
      <url>http://www.ktuu.com/global/story.asp?s=11446258</url>
      <weight type="integer" nil="true"></weight>
    </recent-news>
    <recent-news type="Commentary">
      <average-rating type="float" nil="true"></average-rating>
      <commentariable-id type="integer">412326</commentariable-id>
      <commentariable-type>Person</commentariable-type>
      <contains-term>sen\.</contains-term>
      <created-at type="timestamp">Wed Nov 04 22:30:05 -0600 2009</created-at>
      <date type="timestamp">Wed Nov 04 00:00:00 -0600 2009</date>
      <excerpt>...to be the U.S. marshal for Alaska.   Heun, an Army veteran who joined APD in 1983, was chief for three years while Sen. Mark Begich was mayor. He resigned his position in August, saying he wanted to work on a family business but that he also aspired to </excerpt>
      <fti-names>'ex':2 'us':7 'apd':23 'say':43 'sen':32 'u.s':13 'win':6 '1983':25 'also':55 'armi':19 'busi':51 'heun':17 'join':22 'mark':33 'news':60 'want':45 'work':47 'year':30 'aspir':56 'chief':5,27 'daili':59 'mayor':36 'nomin':9 'polic':4 'posit':40 'three':29 'alaska':16 'august':42 'begich':34 'famili':50 'resign':38 'marshal':8,14 'veteran':20 'anchorag':3,58 'ex-anchorag':1</fti-names>
      <id type="integer">6581883</id>
      <is-news type="boolean">true</is-news>
      <is-ok type="boolean">true</is-ok>
      <scraped-from>daylife</scraped-from>
      <source>Anchorage Daily News</source>
      <source-url>http://www.adn.com/</source-url>
      <status>OK</status>
      <title>Ex-Anchorage police chief wins US marshal nomination</title>
      <url>http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/999903.html</url>
      <weight type="integer" nil="true"></weight>
    </recent-news>
    <recent-news type="Commentary">
      <average-rating type="float" nil="true"></average-rating>
      <commentariable-id type="integer">412326</commentariable-id>
      <commentariable-type>Person</commentariable-type>
      <contains-term>senator</contains-term>
      <created-at type="timestamp">Fri Oct 30 11:08:33 -0500 2009</created-at>
      <date type="timestamp">Fri Oct 30 00:00:00 -0500 2009</date>
      <excerpt>...       ALEXANDRIA, Va. Oct. 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, the 60 Plus Association released a new TV ad targeting Senator Mark Begich (D-Alaska). The ad features members of our Greatest Generation begging Sen. Begich not to cut Medicare to pay for</excerpt>
      <fti-names>'d':29 '30':12 '60':16 'ad':23,32 'tv':22 'va':10 'beg':39 'cut':7,44 'new':21 'oct':11 'pay':47 'sen':40 'mark':26 'plus':17 'insid':50 'senat':3,25 'today':14 'alaska':30 'associ':18 'begich':4,27,41 'featur':33 'member':34 'releas':19 'senior':1 'street':49 'target':24 'generat':38 'medicar':8,45 'd-alaska':28 'greatest':37 'alexandria':9 '/prnewswire-usnewswire':13</fti-names>
      <id type="integer">6532361</id>
      <is-news type="boolean">true</is-news>
      <is-ok type="boolean">true</is-ok>
      <scraped-from>daylife</scraped-from>
      <source>Street Insider</source>
      <source-url>http://www.streetinsider.com/</source-url>
      <status>OK</status>
      <title>Seniors to Senator Begich &quot;Don&amp;apos;t Cut Medicare!&quot;</title>
      <url>http://www.streetinsider.com/Press+Releases/Seniors+to+Senator+Begich+%26quot%3BDon%26apos%3Bt+Cut+Medicare%21%26quot%3B/5060098.html</url>
      <weight type="integer" nil="true"></weight>
    </recent-news>
    <recent-news type="Commentary">
      <average-rating type="float" nil="true"></average-rating>
      <commentariable-id type="integer">412326</commentariable-id>
      <commentariable-type>Person</commentariable-type>
      <contains-term>democrat</contains-term>
      <created-at type="timestamp">Fri Oct 30 22:17:42 -0500 2009</created-at>
      <date type="timestamp">Fri Oct 30 00:00:00 -0500 2009</date>
      <excerpt>...news recently, there is a new item on the table to complete the missile defense fund at Ft. Greely BUT on condition of: Sen. Mark Begich, a Democrat, appealed to the Senate Armed ServicesCommittee in June to maintain money to expand the ground-based mis</excerpt>
      <fti-names>'6':11 'ft':35 'arm':50 'mis':63 'new':23 'sen':41 'base':62 'fund':33 'hall':65 'iran':12 'item':24 'june':53 'mark':42 'news':18 'part':10 'tabl':27 'town':64 'money':56 'palin':4 'right':9 'sarah':3,7 'senat':49 'alaska':1,14 'appeal':46 'begich':43 'condit':39 'defens':32 'expand':58 'greeli':36 'ground':61 'missil':16,31 'recent':19 'shield':17 'complet':29 'democrat':45 'governor':2 'maintain':55 'accomplish':6 'ground-bas':60 'servicescommitte':51</fti-names>
      <id type="integer">6539588</id>
      <is-news type="boolean">true</is-news>
      <is-ok type="boolean">true</is-ok>
      <scraped-from>daylife</scraped-from>
      <source>Town Hall</source>
      <source-url>http://www.townhall.com/</source-url>
      <status>OK</status>
      <title>Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's Accomplishments: Sarah was right Part 6: Iran and Alaska's Missile Shield.</title>
      <url>http://sarahs-accomplishments.blogtownhall.com/2009/10/30/sarah_was_right_part_6_iran_and_alaskas_missile_shield.thtml</url>
      <weight type="integer" nil="true"></weight>
    </recent-news>
    <recent-news type="Commentary">
      <average-rating type="float" nil="true"></average-rating>
      <commentariable-id type="integer">412326</commentariable-id>
      <commentariable-type>Person</commentariable-type>
      <contains-term>sen\.</contains-term>
      <created-at type="timestamp">Fri Oct 30 11:08:33 -0500 2009</created-at>
      <date type="timestamp">Thu Oct 29 00:00:00 -0500 2009</date>
      <excerpt>...homes for low-income families in the Mat-Su with another 16 under construction. The construction caught the attention of U.S. Sen. Mark Begich and Dallas Tongsager, undersecretary for the Department of Rural Development. Both toured Self-Help Housing si</excerpt>
      <fti-names>'16':20 'si':49 'su':17 'low':10 'mat':16 'sen':30 'u.s':29 'help':47 'home':7 'hous':48 'mark':31 'self':46 'tour':44 'anoth':19 'dalla':34 'empir':51 'futur':5 'incom':11 'rural':41 'sweat':1 'sweet':3 'attent':27 'begich':32 'caught':25 'depart':39 'famili':12 'juneau':50 'mat-su':15 'develop':42 'homeown':6 'tongsag':35 'construct':22,24 'low-incom':9 'self-help':45 'undersecretari':36</fti-names>
      <id type="integer">6532362</id>
      <is-news type="boolean">true</is-news>
      <is-ok type="boolean">true</is-ok>
      <scraped-from>daylife</scraped-from>
      <source>Juneau Empire</source>
      <source-url>http://www.juneauempire.com/</source-url>
      <status>OK</status>
      <title>Sweat is sweet for future homeowners</title>
      <url>http://juneauempire.com/stories/102909/sta_510360327.shtml</url>
      <weight type="integer" nil="true"></weight>
    </recent-news>
    <recent-news type="Commentary">
      <average-rating type="float" nil="true"></average-rating>
      <commentariable-id type="integer">412326</commentariable-id>
      <commentariable-type>Person</commentariable-type>
      <contains-term>senator</contains-term>
      <created-at type="timestamp">Sat Oct 31 11:07:36 -0500 2009</created-at>
      <date type="timestamp">Thu Oct 29 00:00:00 -0500 2009</date>
      <excerpt>...of the Alaska Territorial Guard with lower retirement payments than they deserved. It took a lot of work by Senators Mark Begich and Lisa Murkowski to overcome perplexing resistance from the Obama administration on that one.   The bill also has provisio</excerpt>
      <fti-names>'lot':24 'one':44 'u.s':8 'also':47 'bill':4,46 'good':5 'lisa':32 'mark':29 'took':22 'work':26 'guard':13 'lower':15 'obama':40 'retir':16 'senat':28 'spend':3 'alaska':7,11 'begich':30 'deserv':20 'resist':37 'overcom':35 'payment':17 'perplex':36 'militari':2 'provisio':49 'administr':41 'mcclatchi':50 'murkowski':33 'territori':12 'commentari':1</fti-names>
      <id type="integer">6542357</id>
      <is-news type="boolean">true</is-news>
      <is-ok type="boolean">true</is-ok>
      <scraped-from>daylife</scraped-from>
      <source>McClatchy</source>
      <source-url>http://www.mcclatchydc.com/</source-url>
      <status>OK</status>
      <title>Commentary: Military spending bill good for Alaska, U.S.</title>
      <url>http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/77984.html</url>
      <weight type="integer" nil="true"></weight>
    </recent-news>
    <recent-news type="Commentary">
      <average-rating type="float" nil="true"></average-rating>
      <commentariable-id type="integer">412326</commentariable-id>
      <commentariable-type>Person</commentariable-type>
      <contains-term>democrat</contains-term>
      <created-at type="timestamp">Thu Oct 29 22:18:32 -0500 2009</created-at>
      <date type="timestamp">Thu Oct 29 00:00:00 -0500 2009</date>
      <excerpt>...hadn't proven itself and the threat from rogue states, such as North Korea, could be handled with existing interceptors. Sen. Mark Begich, a Democrat, appealed to the Senate Armed Services Committee in June to maintain money to expand the ground-based m</excerpt>
      <fti-names>'m':51 '14':4 'us':1 'arm':37 'sen':28 'base':50 'hadn':8 'june':41 'mark':29 'rogu':16 'silo':7 'could':22 'empir':53 'exist':26 'handl':24 'korea':21 'money':44 'north':20 'senat':36 'state':17 'alaska':5 'appeal':33 'begich':30 'expand':46 'ground':49 'juneau':52 'missil':6 'proven':10 'servic':38 'threat':14 'complet':3 'committe':39 'democrat':32 'maintain':43 'ground-bas':48 'interceptor':27</fti-names>
      <id type="integer">6528744</id>
      <is-news type="boolean">true</is-news>
      <is-ok type="boolean">true</is-ok>
      <scraped-from>daylife</scraped-from>
      <source>Juneau Empire</source>
      <source-url>http://www.juneauempire.com/</source-url>
      <status>OK</status>
      <title>US to complete 14 Alaska missile silos</title>
      <url>http://juneauempire.com/stories/102909/sta_510360304.shtml</url>
      <weight type="integer" nil="true"></weight>
    </recent-news>
    <recent-news type="Commentary">
      <average-rating type="float" nil="true"></average-rating>
      <commentariable-id type="integer">412326</commentariable-id>
      <commentariable-type>Person</commentariable-type>
      <contains-term>sen\.</contains-term>
      <created-at type="timestamp">Mon Oct 26 22:01:15 -0500 2009</created-at>
      <date type="timestamp">Mon Oct 26 00:00:00 -0500 2009</date>
      <excerpt>Sen. Mark Begich, D-Alaska, wrote a letter to Gov. Sean Parnell on Wednesday saying Diomede is locked in a &amp;quot;transportation crisis&amp;quot; and suggesting the state ...</excerpt>
      <fti-names>'d':12 'gov':18 'say':23 'sen':8 'isol':3 'lack':5 'lock':26 'mark':9 'news':37 'sean':19 'crisi':30 'daili':36 'state':34 'wrote':14 'alaska':13 'begich':10 'diomed':24 'island':1 'letter':16 'parnel':20 'villag':2 'suggest':32 'aircraft':7 'anchorag':35 'd-alaska':11 'transport':29 'wednesday':22</fti-names>
      <id type="integer">6498182</id>
      <is-news type="boolean">true</is-news>
      <is-ok type="boolean">true</is-ok>
      <scraped-from>google news</scraped-from>
      <source>Anchorage Daily News</source>
      <source-url nil="true"></source-url>
      <status>OK</status>
      <title>Island village isolated by lack of aircraft</title>
      <url>http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/rural/story/987119.html</url>
      <weight type="integer" nil="true"></weight>
    </recent-news>
    <recent-news type="Commentary">
      <average-rating type="float" nil="true"></average-rating>
      <commentariable-id type="integer">412326</commentariable-id>
      <commentariable-type>Person</commentariable-type>
      <contains-term>sen\.</contains-term>
      <created-at type="timestamp">Mon Oct 26 22:01:15 -0500 2009</created-at>
      <date type="timestamp">Mon Oct 26 00:00:00 -0500 2009</date>
      <excerpt>Sen. Mark Begich last week wrote a letter to Gov. Sean Parnell calling the flight freeze a transportation crisis. He&amp;#39;s suggesting the state look into ...</excerpt>
      <fti-names>'gov':10 'sen':1 'call':13 'last':4 'look':25 'mark':2 'news':29 'sean':11 'week':5 'crisi':19 'daili':28 'freez':16 'state':24 'wrote':6 'begich':3 'flight':15 'letter':8 'parnel':12 'suggest':22 'anchorag':27 'transport':18</fti-names>
      <id type="integer">6498183</id>
      <is-news type="boolean">true</is-news>
      <is-ok type="boolean">true</is-ok>
      <scraped-from>google news</scraped-from>
      <source>Anchorage Daily News</source>
      <source-url nil="true"></source-url>
      <status>OK</status>
      <title></title>
      <url>http://community.adn.com/adn/node/144489</url>
      <weight type="integer" nil="true"></weight>
    </recent-news>
  </recent-news>
  <recent-blogs type="array">
    <recent-blog type="Commentary">
      <average-rating type="float" nil="true"></average-rating>
      <commentariable-id type="integer">412326</commentariable-id>
      <commentariable-type>Person</commentariable-type>
      <contains-term>representative</contains-term>
      <created-at type="timestamp">Sun Nov 08 11:10:29 -0600 2009</created-at>
      <date type="timestamp">Sat Nov 07 00:00:00 -0600 2009</date>
      <excerpt>Sen. Mark Begich, Alaska DC Office Phone Number: 202-224-3004, DC Fax Number: 202-224-2354 Sen. Evan Bayh, Indiana DC Office Phone Number: 202-224-5623, DC Fax Number: 202-228-1377 Targeted House of Representative Members ...</excerpt>
      <fti-names>'dc':11,18,28,35 'go':3 '202':15,21,32,38 'fax':19,36 'sen':7,24 '-224':16,22,33 '-228':39 'bayh':26 'care':2 'evan':25 'hous':42 'mark':8 'news':51 'vote':5 '-1377':40 '-2354':23 '-3004':17 '-5623':34 'break':50 'forum':48 'offic':12,29 'phone':13,30 'world':49 'alaska':10 'begich':9 'fusion':47 'member':45 'number':14,20,31,37 'repres':44 'target':41 'indiana':27 'stealth':46 'tonight':6 'pelosi/obama':1</fti-names>
      <id type="integer">6618776</id>
      <is-news type="boolean">false</is-news>
      <is-ok type="boolean">true</is-ok>
      <scraped-from>google blog</scraped-from>
      <source>Stealth Fusion Forum - World Breaking News </source>
      <source-url>http://www.stealthfusion.com/</source-url>
      <status>OK</status>
      <title>Pelosi/obama care going to vote tonight</title>
      <url>http://www.stealthfusion.com/big-government/8643-pelosi-obama-care-going-vote-tonight.html</url>
      <weight type="integer" nil="true"></weight>
    </recent-blog>
    <recent-blog type="Commentary">
      <average-rating type="float" nil="true"></average-rating>
      <commentariable-id type="integer">412326</commentariable-id>
      <commentariable-type>Person</commentariable-type>
      <contains-term>democrat</contains-term>
      <created-at type="timestamp">Sat Nov 07 22:17:21 -0600 2009</created-at>
      <date type="timestamp">Sat Nov 07 00:00:00 -0600 2009</date>
      <excerpt>Palin&amp;#39;s high school team in her senior year got to the eight-team state tournament and beat the favorites in the first round, because Stephanie Begich, sister of the state&amp;#39;s new Democratic Sen. Mark Begich, missed a critical free throw. ...</excerpt>
      <fti-names>'got':18 'new':42 'sen':44 'beat':27 'free':50 'high':11 'mark':45 'miss':47 'team':13,23 'year':17 'eight':22 'first':32 'palin':6,9,53 'round':33 'sarah':1,5,52 'squad':8,55 'state':24,40 'throw':51 'truth':7,54 'alaska':3 'begich':36,46 'critic':49 'review':4 'school':12 'senior':16 'sister':37 'favorit':29 'democrat':43 'stephani':35 'eight-team':21 'tournament':25</fti-names>
      <id type="integer">6613379</id>
      <is-news type="boolean">false</is-news>
      <is-ok type="boolean">true</is-ok>
      <scraped-from>google blog</scraped-from>
      <source>Sarah Palin Truth Squad </source>
      <source-url>http://sarahpalintruthsquad.wordpress.com/</source-url>
      <status>OK</status>
      <title>&amp;#39;Sarah From Alaska&amp;#39; Review &#171; Sarah Palin Truth Squad</title>
      <url>http://sarahpalintruthsquad.wordpress.com/2009/11/07/%E2%80%98sarah-from-alaska%E2%80%99-review/</url>
      <weight type="integer" nil="true"></weight>
    </recent-blog>
    <recent-blog type="Commentary">
      <average-rating type="float" nil="true"></average-rating>
      <commentariable-id type="integer">412326</commentariable-id>
      <commentariable-type>Person</commentariable-type>
      <contains-term>democrat</contains-term>
      <created-at type="timestamp">Sat Nov 07 22:17:21 -0600 2009</created-at>
      <date type="timestamp">Sat Nov 07 00:00:00 -0600 2009</date>
      <excerpt>Bear in mind that the State of Alaska just voted in Democratic Senator Mark Begich. The state was considered a toss-up in the presidential election before Palin entered the race. The state legislature is fairly evenly divided. ...</excerpt>
      <fti-names>'eat':8 'bear':11 'even':48 'fair':47 'mark':24 'mind':13 'race':42 'time':3 'toss':32 'vote':20 'divid':49 'elect':37 'enter':40 'palin':39 'senat':23 'start':7 'state':16,27,44 'young':10 'alaska':18 'begich':25 'consid':29 'mudflat':2,51 'toss-up':31 'democrat':22 'legislatur':45 'presidenti':36 'republican':5</fti-names>
      <id type="integer">6613380</id>
      <is-news type="boolean">false</is-news>
      <is-ok type="boolean">true</is-ok>
      <scraped-from>google blog</scraped-from>
      <source>The Mudflats </source>
      <source-url>http://www.themudflats.net/</source-url>
      <status>OK</status>
      <title>The Mudflats &#187; Time for Republicans to Start Eating Their Young.</title>
      <url>http://www.themudflats.net/2009/11/07/time-for-republicans-to-start-eating-their-young/</url>
      <weight type="integer" nil="true"></weight>
    </recent-blog>
    <recent-blog type="Commentary">
      <average-rating type="float" nil="true"></average-rating>
      <commentariable-id type="integer">412326</commentariable-id>
      <commentariable-type>Person</commentariable-type>
      <contains-term>senate</contains-term>
      <created-at type="timestamp">Sun Nov 08 11:10:30 -0600 2009</created-at>
      <date type="timestamp">Fri Nov 06 00:00:00 -0600 2009</date>
      <excerpt>The letter was addressed to Stabenow and the co-sponsors of the bill, including Baucus, Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Sen. Mark Begich (D-Alaska). ...</excerpt>
      <fti-names>'d':29,35,41,48 'co':18 'ami':38 'epw':5 'sen':25,31,37,44 'tom':26 'bill':2,7,22 'iowa':30 'mark':45 'minn':42 'ohio':36 'pass':3 'brown':33 'senat':4 'wheat':53 'alaska':49 'associ':51 'baucus':24 'begich':46 'climat':1 'd-iowa':28 'd-minn':40 'd-ohio':34 'grower':54 'harkin':27 'includ':23 'letter':10 'nation':50 'offset':6 'address':12 'sherrod':32 'sponsor':19 'd-alaska':47 'introduc':8 'stabenow':14 'klobuchar':39 'co-sponsor':17</fti-names>
      <id type="integer">6618778</id>
      <is-news type="boolean">false</is-news>
      <is-ok type="boolean">true</is-ok>
      <scraped-from>google blog</scraped-from>
      <source>National Association of Wheat Growers </source>
      <source-url>http://www.wheatworld.org/</source-url>
      <status>OK</status>
      <title>Climate Bill Passes Senate EPW; Offsets Bill Introduced</title>
      <url>http://www.wheatworld.org/2009/11/climate-bill-passes-senate-epw-offsets-bill-introduced/</url>
      <weight type="integer" nil="true"></weight>
    </recent-blog>
    <recent-blog type="Commentary">
      <average-rating type="float" nil="true"></average-rating>
      <commentariable-id type="integer">412326</commentariable-id>
      <commentariable-type>Person</commentariable-type>
      <contains-term>congress</contains-term>
      <created-at type="timestamp">Fri Nov 06 22:19:28 -0600 2009</created-at>
      <date type="timestamp">Fri Nov 06 00:00:00 -0600 2009</date>
      <excerpt>said a new highway bill would help immediately with job creation. Democrats will focus even more on job creation once Congress finishes the debate on health care, said Sen. Mark Begich, a freshman Democrat elected from deeply Republican ...</excerpt>
      <fti-names>'job':17,25 'new':10 'sen':36 '10.2':6 'bill':12 'buzz':3,48 'care':34 'even':22 'help':14 'mark':37 'rate':5 'said':8,35 'black':1,46 'debat':31 'elect':42 'focus':21 'polit':2,47 'would':13 'begich':38 'deepli':44 'finish':29 'health':33 'immedi':15 'highway':11 'congress':28 'creation':18,26 'democrat':19,41 'freshman':40 'unemploy':4 'republican':45</fti-names>
      <id type="integer">6603985</id>
      <is-news type="boolean">false</is-news>
      <is-ok type="boolean">true</is-ok>
      <scraped-from>google blog</scraped-from>
      <source>BLACK POLITICAL BUZZ.... </source>
      <source-url>http://blackpoliticalbuzz.blogspot.com/</source-url>
      <status>OK</status>
      <title>BLACK POLITICAL BUZZ....: Unemployment Rate (10.2%) Has ...</title>
      <url>http://blackpoliticalbuzz.blogspot.com/2009/11/unemployment-rate-102-has-congressional.html</url>
      <weight type="integer" nil="true"></weight>
    </recent-blog>
    <recent-blog type="Commentary">
      <average-rating type="float" nil="true"></average-rating>
      <commentariable-id type="integer">412326</commentariable-id>
      <commentariable-type>Person</commentariable-type>
      <contains-term>sen\.</contains-term>
      <created-at type="timestamp">Sat Nov 07 11:05:34 -0600 2009</created-at>
      <date type="timestamp">Fri Nov 06 00:00:00 -0600 2009</date>
      <excerpt>Sen. Jon Tester, Montana DC Office Phone Number: 202-224-2644, DC Fax Number: 202-224-8594. Sen. Joe Lieberman, Connecticut DC Office Phone Number: 202-224-4041, DC Fax Number: 202-224-9750. Sen. Mark Begich, Alaska ...</excerpt>
      <fti-names>'dc':18,25,35,42 'us':2,53 '202':22,28,39,45 'fax':26,43 'joe':32 'jon':15 'sen':14,31,48 '-224':23,29,40,46 'fenc':6 'give':1,52 'mark':49 'vote':13 '-2644':24 '-4041':41 '-8594':30 '-9750':47 'offic':19,36 'phone':20,37 'alaska':51 'begich':50 'better':8 'number':21,27,38,44 'tester':16 'liberti':3,54 'montana':17 'lieberman':33 'connecticut':34</fti-names>
      <id type="integer">6608299</id>
      <is-news type="boolean">false</is-news>
      <is-ok type="boolean">true</is-ok>
      <scraped-from>google blog</scraped-from>
      <source>Give Us Liberty </source>
      <source-url>http://giveusliberty1776.blogspot.com/</source-url>
      <status>OK</status>
      <title>Give Us Liberty: ON THE FENCE? They better not be. If they vote ...</title>
      <url>http://giveusliberty1776.blogspot.com/2009/11/on-fence-they-better-not-be-if-they.html</url>
      <weight type="integer" nil="true"></weight>
    </recent-blog>
    <recent-blog type="Commentary">
      <average-rating type="float" nil="true"></average-rating>
      <commentariable-id type="integer">412326</commentariable-id>
      <commentariable-type>Person</commentariable-type>
      <contains-term>democrat</contains-term>
      <created-at type="timestamp">Fri Nov 06 22:19:28 -0600 2009</created-at>
      <date type="timestamp">Fri Nov 06 00:00:00 -0600 2009</date>
      <excerpt>&amp;quot;Last week, she got precisely zero support for her call for Alaska&amp;#39;s Democratic Senator Mark Begich to resign because Ted Stevens&amp;#39; corruption conviction was overturned.&amp;quot; But according to Politifact.com: But did Palin get &amp;quot;precisely z</excerpt>
      <fti-names>'z':47 'get':45 'got':15 'ted':32 'call':21 'last':12 'mark':27 'texa':1,48 'week':13 'zero':17 'doesn':8 'palin':4,44,51 'sarah':3,50 'senat':26 'accord':39 'alaska':23 'begich':28 'maddow':5 'precis':16,46 'resign':30 'steven':33 'convict':35 'corrupt':34 'support':18 'democrat':25 'overturn':37 'constitut':7 'politifact.com':41</fti-names>
      <id type="integer">6603984</id>
      <is-news type="boolean">false</is-news>
      <is-ok type="boolean">true</is-ok>
      <scraped-from>google blog</scraped-from>
      <source>Texas for Sarah Palin </source>
      <source-url>http://texas4palin.blogspot.com/</source-url>
      <status>OK</status>
      <title>Texas for Sarah Palin: Maddow: &amp;quot;The Constitution doesn&amp;#39;t have a ...</title>
      <url>http://texas4palin.blogspot.com/2009/11/maddow-constitution-doesnt-have.html</url>
      <weight type="integer" nil="true"></weight>
    </recent-blog>
    <recent-blog type="Commentary">
      <average-rating type="float" nil="true"></average-rating>
      <commentariable-id type="integer">412326</commentariable-id>
      <commentariable-type>Person</commentariable-type>
      <contains-term>sen\.</contains-term>
      <created-at type="timestamp">Fri Nov 06 11:13:20 -0600 2009</created-at>
      <date type="timestamp">Thu Nov 05 00:00:00 -0600 2009</date>
      <excerpt>and Mark Begich (D-Alaska). Aligning yourself with Brownback and Murkowski only strengthens one&amp;#39;s conservadem resume. It is not clean energy and it has been doing damage to the people of Colorado, unless you thinking flameable tap water ...</excerpt>
      <fti-names>'d':15 'one':25 'sen':2 'tap':49 'mark':12 'page':53 'advis':9 'align':17 'clean':32 'damag':39 'front':52 'peopl':42 'resum':28 'think':47 'water':50 'alaska':16 'begich':13 'bennet':4 'energi':33 'secret':8 'unless':45 'michael':3 'colorado':44 'd-alaska':14 'flameabl':48 'brownback':20 'murkowski':22 'strengthen':24 'conservadem':27 'squarestate.net':1,51</fti-names>
      <id type="integer">6597714</id>
      <is-news type="boolean">false</is-news>
      <is-ok type="boolean">true</is-ok>
      <scraped-from>google blog</scraped-from>
      <source>SquareState.net - Front Page </source>
      <source-url>http://www.squarestate.net/</source-url>
      <status>OK</status>
      <title>SquareState.net:: Sen. Michael Bennet&amp;#39;s not so secret adviser on ...</title>
      <url>http://www.squarestate.net/diary/8896/sen-michael-bennets-not-so-secret-adviser-on-the-environment</url>
      <weight type="integer" nil="true"></weight>
    </recent-blog>
    <recent-blog type="Commentary">
      <average-rating type="float" nil="true"></average-rating>
      <commentariable-id type="integer">412326</commentariable-id>
      <commentariable-type>Person</commentariable-type>
      <contains-term>democrat</contains-term>
      <created-at type="timestamp">Fri Nov 06 11:13:20 -0600 2009</created-at>
      <date type="timestamp">Thu Nov 05 00:00:00 -0600 2009</date>
      <excerpt>Tom Harkin of Iowa, Sen. Max Baucus of Montana, Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire and Sen. Mark Begich of Alaska, all Democrats. Stabenow played a key role in pulling ...</excerpt>
      <fti-names>'ag':6 'ami':18 'key':44 'max':13 'new':31 'sen':12,17,22,27,34 'tom':8 'blog':2 'iowa':11 'mark':35 'ohio':26 'play':42 'pull':47 'role':45 'brown':24 'jeann':28 'trade':7 'alaska':38 'archiv':3 'baucus':14 'begich':36 'climat':4 'harkin':9 'legisl':5 'montana':16 'shaheen':29 'sherrod':23 'democrat':40 'hampshir':32 'stabenow':41 'klobuchar':19 'minnesota':21 'farmpolicy.com':1,48</fti-names>
      <id type="integer">6597715</id>
      <is-news type="boolean">false</is-news>
      <is-ok type="boolean">true</is-ok>
      <scraped-from>google blog</scraped-from>
      <source>FarmPolicy.com </source>
      <source-url>http://www.farmpolicy.com/</source-url>
      <status>OK</status>
      <title>FarmPolicy.com &#187; Blog Archives &#187; Climate Legislation; Ag Trade ...</title>
      <url>http://www.farmpolicy.com/?p=1568</url>
      <weight type="integer" nil="true"></weight>
    </recent-blog>
    <recent-blog type="Commentary">
      <average-rating type="float" nil="true"></average-rating>
      <commentariable-id type="integer">412326</commentariable-id>
      <commentariable-type>Person</commentariable-type>
      <contains-term>sen\.</contains-term>
      <created-at type="timestamp">Thu Nov 05 22:22:58 -0600 2009</created-at>
      <date type="timestamp">Thu Nov 05 00:00:00 -0600 2009</date>
      <excerpt>...of our nation's diverse energy portfolio,&quot; states the letter from Sens. Michael Bennett (D-Colo.), Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), Mark Udall (D-Colo.), Arlen Specter (D-Pa.), Tom Udall (D-N.M.), Mary Landrieu (D-La.), David Vitter (R-La.), Sam Brownback (R-</excerpt>
      <fti-names>'d':27,37,42,47,53 'm':49 'n':48 'r':32,58,62 'la':54,59 'pa':43 'd-n':46 'sam':60 'sen':1,23 'tom':44 'colo':28,38 'd-la':52 'd-pa':41 'lisa':29 'mari':50 'mark':34 'r-la':57 'udal':35,45 'advis':8 'arlen':39 'david':55 'state':19 'alaska':33 'bennet':3 'd-colo':26,36 'divers':16 'energi':17 'letter':21 'nation':14 'secret':7 'vitter':56 'bennett':25 'environ':11 'michael':2,24 'specter':40 'landrieu':51 'r-alaska':31 'brownback':61 'murkowski':30 'portfolio':18 'squarestate.net':63</fti-names>
      <id type="integer">6593413</id>
      <is-news type="boolean">false</is-news>
      <is-ok type="boolean">true</is-ok>
      <scraped-from>daylife</scraped-from>
      <source>SquareState.net</source>
      <source-url>http://www.squarestate.net/</source-url>
      <status>OK</status>
      <title>Sen. Michael Bennet's not so secret adviser on the environment</title>
      <url>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SquarestatenetRssFeed/~3/lRCUmpvvBF8/sen-michael-bennets-not-so-secret-adviser-on-the-environment</url>
      <weight type="integer" nil="true"></weight>
    </recent-blog>
  </recent-blogs>
</person>
