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      <excerpt>HAVRE There's a new gunslinger in town and he's got Hill County politicians in his sights.
Roughly five months ago, several disgruntled Havreites began posting reasoned rants on the Internet they named the Havre Daily Corrector.
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      <excerpt>...drew support from moderate Democrats on his committee, including some who had expressed reservations in November. &quot;Sen. [Jon] Tester believes creating jobs and cleaning up Wall Street is a non-partisan goal, but doing nothing is not an option,&quot; said Aar</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...its plans and most farmers failed to take even the first step toward participation: registering their farms with the USDA. Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., an opponent of the proposal, filed an amendment to the Agriculture Appropriations bill to strip much of </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...(AP) U.S. Sen. Jon Tester is making changes to his plan that aims to both increase logging and wilderness area in Montana. He says the changes are the result of concerns raised since the bills introduction last summer. The bill would still create more t</excerpt>
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      <excerpt> By , 02-03-10 HELENA &#8211; Sen. Jon Tester&amp;#39;s office says that a staffer that is leaving to go work for a lobbying firm is walking out a &amp;quot;one-way door. ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>WASHINGTON (AP) &#8212; President Barack Obama wants to save $115 million this year &#8212; and $1.2 billion over 10 years &#8212; by eliminating payments to states and Indian tribes that have completed cleanup of abandoned coal mines.
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      <excerpt> Senator Jon Tester, Democrat of Montana, disagreed. &#8220;The president&amp;#39;s remarks &#8212; I don&amp;#39;t see them as threatening, I don&amp;#39;t see them as negative, ... </excerpt>
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