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      <excerpt>...bill about clean energy, but taxpayers expect us to know what this bill costs before we start voting on it,&quot; said Sen. Lamar Alexander (Tenn.), who sits on the panel and also chairs the Senate Republican Conference. Baucus, who had sought to bring the m</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...Blue Dogs, called the result a wake-up call for Congress. A tidal wave could be coming. His fellow Tennessean, Republican Sen. Lamar Alexander, said that Obama retains his personal popularity, but his policies, and those pushed by the congressional Demo</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...Dogs,&quot; called the result &quot;a wake-up call for Congress. A tidal wave could be coming.&quot; His fellow Tennessean, Republican Sen. Lamar Alexander, said that Obama &quot;retains his personal popularity, but his policies, and those pushed by the congressional Democ</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...called the result &quot;a wake-up call for Congress. A tidal wave could be coming.&quot; His fellow Tennessean, Republican Sen. Lamar Alexander, said that Obama &quot;retains his personal popularity, but his policies, and those pushed by the congressional Democrats, a</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...called the result &quot;a wake-up call for Congress. A tidal wave could be coming.&quot; His fellow Tennessean, Republican Sen. Lamar Alexander, said that Obama &quot;retains his personal popularity, but his policies, and those pushed by the congressional Democrats, a</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...no longer seem to emphasize what once held us together, preferring to teach &quot;diversity&quot; instead. Six years ago, Sen. Lamar Alexander, Tennessee Republican, introduced a bill to require a greater emphasis on American history and civics in public school c</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...national purpose as determined by the president. A companion version of the bill has been introduced in the Senate by Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn. At issue is 20,000 tons of low-level waste from Italy that a U.S. company, EnergySolutions Inc., wants to</excerpt>
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