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      <excerpt> Minnesota Congressman Collin Peterson slammed the hasty introduction of the scanners yesterday as nothing more than an example of security theatre that ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt> But not everyone is on board with the change. &amp;quot;I think we&amp;#39;ve gone way overboard,&amp;quot; Rep. Collin Peterson said. &amp;quot;I think a lot of what goes on at the airport ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt> A stab at the agency&amp;#39;s appropriations could come from Rep. Jo Ann Emerson (R-Mo.), a cosponsor of the bill with Peterson who sits on the House ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt> the chairman of the Education and Labor Committee; and Rep. Collin Peterson (D-Minn.), the chairman of the House Agriculture Committee. ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...City for the state's rural electric cooperatives. The bill is to be co-sponsored by House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson, D-Minn. U.S. Rep. Earl Pomeroy, D-N.D., also has filed legislation seeking to block the EPA from regulating greenho</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...for the state's rural electric cooperatives. The bill is to be co-sponsored by House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson, D-Minn. U.S. Rep. Earl Pomeroy, D-N.D., also has filed legislation seeking to block the EPA from regulating greenhouse g</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>This is all too much for Missouri&amp;#39;s Ike Skelton and Minnesota&amp;#39;s Collin Peterson, the Chairmen of the House Armed Services and Agriculture Committees, respectively. Along with Missouri Republican Jo Ann Emerson, they are pushing a ...</excerpt>
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