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      <excerpt> 7, Rep. Rob Wittman failed to support HR 3962, the Affordable Health Care for America Act. Unfortunately, he seems to continue to vote in lockstep with the ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt> Rep. Rob Wittman&amp;#39;s recent vote against the health care bill was in line with his district, and consistent with his fiscally responsible approach to ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt> Also on hand for the ceremony: US Rep. Rob Wittman, former governor Linwood Holton (the First Lady&amp;#39;s father) and nearly 20 other members of Kaine&amp;#39;s family, ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt> But one of the group&amp;#39;s chairmen -- Virginia&amp;#39;s own US Rep. Rob Wittman (R) -- was on hand to speak to dozens of bloggers today at the Blogs United conference ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt> Rob Wittman (R-Va.) and John Culberson (R-Texas) helped launch the New Media Caucus and organized a summer visit to Silicon Valley. ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt> I was sorry to read that Rep. Rob Wittman voted against efforts to fix our broken health care system. This is not just a political game of &amp;quot;shut down Obama. ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt> The next opportunity he has, Rep. Rob Wittman should vote for insurance reform and take the bold step. Do not side again with the powers that resist change. </excerpt>
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      <title>Don&amp;#39;t resist change: Vote for health care</title>
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      <excerpt> It is the reason I am never worried about my two kids, who have chronic asthma. Rep. Rob Wittman showed his true colors when he voted against HR 3962. ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>Rep. Louis Gohmert (R-TX) has introduced a bill, H.R. 4127: To amend title 10, United States Code, to provide that alien unprivileged enemy belligerents may only be tried by military commissions if tried for alleged conduct for which a term  of ... Bill Po</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>But one of the group&amp;#39;s chairmen -- Virginia&amp;#39;s own U.S. Rep. Rob Wittman (R) -- was on hand to speak to dozens of bloggers today at the Blogs United conference at Christopher Newport University in Newport News. ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>Lamar Smith (R-TX) Addison Wilson (R-SC) Rob Wittman (R-VA). I want to thank my rep, Marsha Blackburn, for putting common sense and national security BEFORE politics. If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed! ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>Representative Rob Wittman, a Republican from Virginia&amp;#39;s 1st congressional district, is not the sort of person who could be described as enlightened when it comes to LGBT issues. Just before he was elected to the U.S. House of ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>The speakers included U.S. Representative Rob Wittman (R-VA1) and eight candidates for Congress. I&amp;#39;ll be posting video of Congressman Wittman&amp;#39;s speech later, but I have already uploaded the eight people who seek to join -- or unseat ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>First, thank you to all our guest speakers: Ryan Nobles, Anita Kumar, Julian Walker, Kimball Payne, Kevin Grierson, Rep. Rob Wittman, Scott Robinson, Krystal Ball, Scott Rigell, Ben Loyla, Ken Golden, Scott Taylor, Mike McPadden, ...</excerpt>
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