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      <excerpt>...policy, asking the Government Accountability Office to investigate the State Department's role in the crisis in Honduras. Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, R-Fla., said members of the Honduran congress told visiting members of Congress that the U.S. ambassador to</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...asking the Government Accountability Office to investigate the State Department's role in the crisis in Honduras. Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, R-Fla., said members of the Honduran congress told visiting members of Congress that the U.S. ambassador to Hondura</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...asking the Government Accountability Office to investigate the State Department's role in the crisis in Honduras. Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, R-Fla., said members of the Honduran congress told visiting members of Congress that the U.S. ambassador to Hondura</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...asking the Government Accountability Office to investigate the State Department's role in the crisis in Honduras. Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, R-Fla., said members of the Honduran congress told visiting members of Congress that the U.S. ambassador to Hondura</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>Mario Diaz-Balart - Oversight and Government Reform) HR 3632 - Federal Judiciary Administrative Improvements Act of 2009 (Rep. ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>... connection with District 25 now represented by Mario Diaz-Balart, R-Miami. In exchange, eastern Collier would join with the rest of the county in Rep. ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...after each head count, and one scenario has Collier County losing its east-coast connection with District 25 now represented by Mario Diaz-Balart, R-Miami. In exchange, eastern Collier would join with the rest of the county in Rep. Connie Mack IV&#8217;s Di</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...have no health care coverage. Eighteen of those districts were in three states: California, Texas and Florida. Republican Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, who represents portions of the southern tip of Florida where 31 percent are uninsured, says that because no</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...District 18: Ileana Ros-Lehtinen: 199 dead Florida District 21: Lincoln Diaz-Balart: 195 dead Florida District 25: Mario Diaz-Balart: 195 dead Georgia District 1, Jack Kingston: 123 dead Georgia District 3, Lynn Westmoreland: 102 dead Georgia District 6</excerpt>
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