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      <excerpt>Tom Feeney and Ric Keller. The others representing a mix of new and old blood were: Mitch Ceaser (Broward); state Sen. Tony Hill (Duval); Alan Clendenin ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...are members of Congress. Reception-hopping, regardless of the time of year, is practically written into their job description. Rep. Ric Keller (R-Fla.) is chief among his peers in this category. He lost 100 pounds between the summer of 2007 and last sum</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...are too many applicants and not enough jobs, so it&#8217;s obviously very competitive,&#8221; said Brian Crawford, chief of staff for Rep. Ric Keller (R-Fla.), who lost his reelection race.  The majority of GOP staffers would like to stay on the Hill, but refus</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>Ric Keller [a Republican congressman from Florida] blurted out that Dick Cheney had told him this at a delegation meeting. Then I got a more senior congressman to confirm the story. I called the governor's office, and they said, ...</excerpt>
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      <title>SDCDP Friends: Newspapers laying off DC reporters</title>
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      <excerpt>Could this &quot;event&quot; be akin to a Dem throwing shoes at a Rep or vice versa? Every story seems to gets its own resolution/ending, when often times it is just a piece of the story. To bring everything to &quot;conclusion&quot; when it is nothing but</excerpt>
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      <title>DeMediacratic Nation: Those Flippin' Shoes!!!!!!!!!</title>
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      <excerpt>Often representing solid and/or leaning GOP districts, the list includes: George Allen, Elizabeth Dole, Lou Barletta, Thelma Drake, Tom Feeney, Ric Keller, Robin Hayes , Randy Graf, John Hostettler, J.D. Hayworth, John Shadegg -- as ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>In a memo to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, which he chairs, Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., also expressed skepticism about assertions by then-national security adviser Condoleezza Rice that she was unaware of the ...</excerpt>
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