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  <name>Rep. Harold Rogers [R, KY-5]</name>
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      <excerpt>...got almost $1.2 million for sewer and water improvement projects in the cities of Vine Grove and Burgin. McConnell and Rep. Hal Rogers, R-5th District, jointly obtained $1.5 million to complete land purchases around Fern Lake by the Cumberland Gap Natio</excerpt>
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      <title>Kentucky, Indiana get nearly $26.5 million in spending bill</title>
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      <excerpt>...went.&#160; It cites as an example Kentucky's Lake Cumberland Regional Airport, which received a $3.5 million earmark from Rep. Hal Rogers, R-Ky., in 2004 to build a passenger terminal when the airport had no passenger flights But Craig Fuller, president of</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...was the top priority of local officials. &#8226;Lake Cumberland Regional Airport in Kentucky got a $3.5 million earmark from Rep. Hal Rogers, R-Ky., in 2004 to build a passenger terminal when the airport had no passenger flights. Somerset has handled about </excerpt>
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      <title>Analysis: Airports get $1.1B for pet projects</title>
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      <excerpt>...including Washington, D.C. The earmark and five others worth $9.75 million for the airport was sponsored by Republican Rep. Hal Rogers, whose home is in Somerset. Rogers called the money a drop in the bucket and said the airport improvements are stimula</excerpt>
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      <title>Airports reap $1.1B in earmarks</title>
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      <excerpt>...troops need to be sent or the insurgents will win. &quot;Basically, his point was unless we put the troops in there, it's lost,&quot; Rep. Hal Rogers, R-Ky., told the newspaper. North, now a political commentator and author, was an aide to former President Ronald</excerpt>
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      <title>North tells GOP more Afghan troops needed</title>
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      <excerpt>...Health screenings have been conducted for current and former plant employees since 1999. McConnell, Bunning, Whitfield and Rep. Hal Rogers, R-5th District, got the money for Wolf Creek Dam, though the money also was included in Obamas budget proposal to</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...of thousands of troops in Afghanistan. Basically, his point was unless we put the troops in there, its lost, said Rep. Hal Rogers (R-Ky.).  Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1009/28808.html   &#160;&#160;  Replies to this thread  2.&#160;He should hav</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...66, the highway project through Southern and Eastern Kentucky kept alive by the influence and support of U.S. Rep. Hal Rogers. Thanks to Rogers, the project has received more than $100 million over the past decade for the planning, design and engineerin</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>... has become a quintessential &amp;quot;zombie highway,&amp;quot; holding on long after economists dismissed its potential -- thanks largely to Rep. Hal Rogers (R-KY), ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...ago as a coast-to-coast corridor that would cross southern Kentucky from Missouri to West Virginia.		  Republican U.S. Rep. Hal Rogers of Kentucky has almost single-handedly kept his vision of the I-66 dream alive, funneling more than $100 million over </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>&amp;quot;Of course I represent the biggest coalfields in Kentucky,&#8221; Rep. Hal Rogers (R-KY) said. &amp;quot;I think all members make up their minds on the issue. My mind is made up because I represent the coal miners who earn a living and it&amp;#39;s the ...</excerpt>
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