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      <excerpt> Then-state auditor general Bob Casey did that with then-state Sen. Jack Wagner in the 2002 Democratic primary. Both men lost. Rendell, who defeated Casey in ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...their winter break in a week. President Barack Obama wants to give employers a tax break for each new worker they hire. Sen. Bob Casey of Pennsylvania is one lawmaker who likes the idea. A similar tax credit in the 1970s created over 700,000 jobs. An al</excerpt>
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      <excerpt> Since the party switch, President Obama, US Sen. Bob Casey and Gov. Ed Rendell have come out in support of Specter. Specter&amp;#39;s endorsement by the party is ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>-- Rep. Joe Sestak wasted no time: In his first face-to-face debate with Sen. Arlen Specter, the upstart congressman attacked the incumbent with a slew of accusations.
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      <excerpt>Bob Casey and Arlen Specter, and U.S. Reps. Paul Kanjorski, D-Nanticoke, and Tim Holden, D-St. Clair, met with U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood. &#8220;There obviously is a great deal to be done to move toward total funding, ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>Arlen Specter and Bob Casey of Pennsylvania and Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey all voted against it. A spokesman said Casey believed the commission &amp;quot;would have threatened programs that older Pennsylvanians rely on,&amp;quot; such as Medicare ... But  a sp</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>That&amp;#39;s one of the motivations behind an electronics reuse and recycling business created by two Yale University students, Bob Casey of Chicago and Rich Littlehale of Norwell, Mass. They first came up with the idea to reuse and recycle ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>No one we spoke to hung up the phone before mentioning the former Lieutenant Governor under the elder Bob Casey. Singel was born in Murtha&amp;#39;s Johnstown, is an experienced and disciplined campaigner and knows what it takes to raise money in a  competitiv</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>Democrats are racing to hash out the details of a jobs bill by a self-imposed Monday deadline &#8212; and working overtime to gain the Republican votes they&amp;#39;ll need to pass it. We need to act quickly,&#8221; said Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.). ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>I get that you&amp;#39;re very pro-life and like Democrats that have expressed that sentiment as well, but fuck, take up Harry Reid&amp;#39;s or Bob Casey&amp;#39;s cause. bob h Says: February 8th, 2010 at 6:52 am. Why can&amp;#39;t the WH and Schumer prevail upon Ford to</excerpt>
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