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      <excerpt>...the agency regulations through as quickly as possible, squashing threatening dissent and deflecting troublesome questions. Reps. Jim Sensenbrenner and Darrell Issa recently put out a report documenting the EPA's slippery handling of its carbon rule, in </excerpt>
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      <excerpt> and Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.) plan to meet their constituents. Feingold joins Mike Gousha for an On the Issues discussion at the Marquette University ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...of job applicants. Farmers acknowledge that applicants whose numbers don't match often leave without providing another. U.S. Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., is sponsoring a bill to require employers to use E-Verify before hiring. But some say E-Verify i</excerpt>
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      <excerpt> US Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., is sponsoring a bill to require employers to use E-Verify before hiring. But some say E-Verify is inconvenient, ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt> Another powerful representative in Congress, Jim Sensenbrenner, wants to make the Patriot Act permanent in almost all respects. ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt> Republican Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner holds a listening session each month, the overwhelming topic this month is health care. It took several months and ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt> Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.) opposes a government takeover of health insurance (Page 3B, Nov. 1). Then Sensenbrenner should opt out of the government-run ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt> Recipients of the letter included senators Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Orrin Hatch (R-UT); and representatives John Conyers (D-MI), Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI), ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner oddly said pretty much that same crazy stuff: &amp;quot;The Obama Administration&amp;#39;s primary goal should be to keep terrorists off of U.S. soil, not house them near our homes or give them additional constitutional ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>I bet Jefferson has never disparaged Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner for siding with his party on 90.3% of House votes. Compare that to Feingold&amp;#39;s 76.7%. No judgment is passed on the basis of a legislator voting with their party, ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>It could be used to hold as many as 100 Gitmo transfers. Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Menomonee Falls) believes that invites an attack. I&amp;#39;m strongly against it, Sensenbrenner told TODAY&amp;#39;S TMJ4 reporter Tom Murray. We&amp;#39;ve kept them, ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>Who ever said this guy was boring? 1 month ago; Now watching Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI), papermaking heir, talk about int&amp;#39;l environmental regulation. Irony alert! 1 month ago; didn&amp;#39;t want to be conspicuous frittering away on laptop, ...</excerpt>
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