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      <excerpt>...D-Wisconsin, have expressed serious doubts about the strategy. Even the Democratic party's more hawkish lawmakers, like Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., chairman of the Armed Services Committee, and Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., chairman of the Senate Foreign Rela</excerpt>
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      <excerpt> His demand for a new war tax echoes a similar call by Senate Armed Services Chairman Carl Levin, also a Democrat, who recently told Bloomberg&amp;#39;s Al Hunt that ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt> Guests on &amp;quot;Face the Nation&amp;quot; include Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI), former House Republican Leader Dick Armey, former NY023 Republican congressional candidate Dede ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt> Chairman of the House of Representatives Appropriations Committee, and Senator Carl Levin (D-Mich.), Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt> We have on the Senate side Senator Carl Levin looking at possibly a similar tax. They would bring that as well to the appropriations side from the Senate. ... </excerpt>
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      <title>HAPPY HOUR for November 24, 2009 - Part 1</title>
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      <excerpt> Senator Carl Levin, a Michigan Democrat who heads the Armed Services Committee, has called for focusing efforts on training Afghan security forces before ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt> David Obey&amp;#39;s, D-Wis, Chairman of the powerful House Appropriations Committee and Sen. Carl Levin&amp;#39;s, D-Mich., Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt> But Obama may face opposition from Dem leaders, with House Speaker Pelosi and Sen. Carl Levin critical of Afghan Pres. Karzai and the rising cost of the ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt> You can leave a response or trackback to this entry WASHINGTON DC &#8211; Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., today wrote to the Federal Reserve to comment on the proposed ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt> Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich), chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, has suggested a tax on individuals earning more than $200000. ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>Yesterday, Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich) fired off a letter to the Federal Reserve Board urging it to tweak the rules implementing the CARD Act. Among them, Levin took time to identify a litany of wily credit card tricks. ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>Senator Carl Levin, also a Democrat has also proposed a &#8220;war tax&#8221;, but one he expects only the rich to pay. Charles Krauthammer had this to say: I&amp;#39;m not against a war tax. We have a war, we ought to fund it. I&amp;#39;m not against a national ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>Last week, Michigan Democratic Sen. Carl Levin, the chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee, called for an &amp;quot;additional income tax to the upper brackets, folks earning more than $200000 or $250000&amp;quot; to pay for a troop increase. ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>Michigan Democratic Senator Carl Levin, Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee recently said he has endorsed the idea to pay for the war. The Chicago Tribune reports Obey iterated that he feels the war in Afghanistan will cost ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>In a television interview this week, Sen. Carl Levin of Michigan, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, also endorsed the idea of increasing taxes on people earning more than $200000 to pay for sending additional troops. ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>&#8220;We&amp;#39;ve had incidents when force has been used, we believe, improperly against citizens by contractors,&#8221; said Sen. Carl Levin, the Michigan Democrat who chairs the Senate Armed Services Committee. &#8220;This creates huge problems, obviously, ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>The congressman looks like he needs to be part of a yet-unfounded Congressional Combover Caucus chaired by Michigan senator Carl Levin. It&amp;#39;d be so much easier to take these guys seriously if they just admitted they are old and bald. ...</excerpt>
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