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      <excerpt> ... Representative Jim Costa and Representative Dennis Cardoza on the federal level and Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg and Assembly Speaker ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt> Instead he will face Rep. Dennis Cardoza (D-CA18) in a November 2010 contest for a seat in the US House of Representatives. Berryhill has served the TID ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt> California&amp;#39;s health care crisis is hitting the San Joaquin Valley especially hard. Rep. Dennis Cardoza authored a column (Nov. 13, Page A-15) explaining his ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt> It is for this reason that I support ENDA and hope that you will stand with me and ask Rep. Dennis Cardoza to do the same. A few rules are needed to help ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...a year before the next election raised thousands of dollars for the already flush treasuries of Reps. Devin Nunes, R-Visalia; Dennis Cardoza, D-Merced; and Kevin McCarthy, R-Bakersfield. Its by far the worst part of the job, and I hate it, Nunes said Fr</excerpt>
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      <excerpt> Last week, Rep. Dennis Cardoza wrote a column explaining his position of support for The Making Health Care Affordable Act, which passed in the House. ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt> Also on hand were staff members from Congressman Dennis Cardoza&amp;#39;s office and State Senator Jeff Denham&amp;#39;s office, Stanislaus County Supervisor Jim DeMartini, ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>tool goes here
	
 WASHINGTON -- A 2,074-page health-care bill unveiled in the Senate this week omits funding for proposed medical schools at the University of California at Merced and other institutions.
So now the Capitol Hill maneuvering on behalf</excerpt>
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      <excerpt> Devin Nunes, R-Visalia, Dennis Cardoza, D-Merced, and Kevin McCarthy, R-Bakersfield. &amp;quot;It&amp;#39;s by far the worst part of the job, and I hate it,&amp;quot; Nunes said ... </excerpt>
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      <title>For central California lawmakers, fundraising never stops</title>
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      <excerpt> ... Central Valley have helped remove the same amount of air pollution as removing 153000 cars from California highways, says Rep. Dennis Cardoza, d-Merced. ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>... politicians including Senator Dianne Feinstein, Representative Jim Costa and Representative Dennis Cardoza on the federal level and Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg and Assembly Speaker Karen Bass on the state level. ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>&amp;quot;They love to engage in revisionist history. Shift now to Democratic Rep. Dennis Cardoza of North Carolina: &amp;gt;Today, what I&amp;#39;m hearing on the floor really takes the cake. The gentlelady from North Carolina, in her statement just now, ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>A report at the link below says: The $300 million Medicaid fix that Sen. Mary Landrieu got inserted into the Senate healthcare bill wasn&amp;#39;t the first &#8220;Louisiana Purchase&#8221; of the healthcare debate. Before Rep. Joseph Cao (La.) cast the lone.. . ... D</excerpt>
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