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      <excerpt> Kent Conrad (ND), Jeff Bingaman (NM), Dick Durbin (Ill.) and others have all either endorsed or openly considered the idea of using reconciliation to change ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee aide David Marks is moving to Outreach Strategies, where he will be a vice president. Marks joined the committee five years ago, serving most recently as a press secretary to Chairman Jeff Bingaman, D-N.</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...allowed to go through with the trades, which have been strongly criticized by sportsmen's groups. ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Sen. Jeff Bingaman is asking the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to crack down on criminals who smuggle stolen cars from the U.S. </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Sen. Jeff Bingaman is asking the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to crack down on criminals who smuggle stolen cars from the United States to Mexico.
Bingaman said seven of the 10 metropolitan statistical areas with the worst</excerpt>
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