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      <excerpt>On Jan. 31, Nathaniel D. Laye was awarded the Gold Medal of Achievement in Royal Rangers Outpost 258, Potomac District of the Assemblies of God, by senior commander Douglas Carbaugh.
Nathaniel, 13, is an eighth-grader at Smithsburg Middle School, where</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>AP
RAHM EMANUEL, now White House chief of staff, talks with then-Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama in Chicago in June 2008. Emanuel recently apologized for using the word &#8220;retarded&#8221; to describe liberals at a closed-door meeting last</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...Dodd (Conn.), Tom Harkin (Iowa), Daniel Inouye (Hawaii), Paul Kirk (Mass.), Frank Lautenberg (N.J.), Jeff Merkley (Ore.), Barbara Mikulski (Md.), Patty Murray (Wash.), Jack Reed (R.I.), Jay Rockefeller (W.Va.), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Arlen Specter (Pa.</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...according to recent campaign-finance reports. They spread the money far and wide, including $10,000 Schumer gave to Sen. Barbara Mikulski of Maryland and Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont -- two of the safest seats in the chamber. Capitol Hill insiders say </excerpt>
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      <title>Chuck's $$ wagon rolls in Senate</title>
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      <excerpt> Martin O&amp;#39;Malley, Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., and all eight of Maryland&amp;#39;s representatives in the House are up for re-election this November. ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...by law from addressing this problem head on,&quot; and called for Congress to pass transit safety reform legislation.   Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Baltimore, introduced the National Metro Safety Act in July 2009, and told a Senate panel in December that there </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...going on, guys.&quot; Among the dignitaries in attendance: Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, Gov. Martin O'Malley, Sen. Barbara Mikulski, Reps. Elijah Cummings and John Sarbanes, and City Council President Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, soon to be sworn in as </excerpt>
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