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      <excerpt>...Land, a national conservation organization, today praised U.S. Sens. Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins and U.S. Congresswoman Chellie Pingree for working to secure $3 million from the Land and Water Conservation Fund to acquire a key property as part of t</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...Maine&#8212;U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree says she'll vote for health care reform legislation when it hits the floor this weekend. The Maine Democrat says the bill will improve health care coverage for those who already have it, give insurance companies some co</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>Rep. Chellie Pingree denies this on grounds of the integrity of local control. Ironically, the integrity of local control has been violated by school ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>... contract for additional services related to the design and construction of the next generation destroyers, according to Rep. Chellie Pingree&amp;#39;s office. ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>Nathan Szanton, the principal of the company, led a tour of the Sanford Mill for US Rep. Chellie Pingree, State Rep. Andrea Boland and others when Pingree ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...position.&quot; Of course, he admitted that position was not his own. &quot;I actually support sanctions on Iran,&quot; Yarmuth said.  Rep. Chellie Pingree (D-ME) was also happy to be on J Street's list. &quot;They've been a supporter of mine,&quot; she said, and that's good en</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>Snowe, Collins and US Rep. Chellie Pingree comprise three-fourths of the state&amp;#39;s delegation. &amp;quot;We conclude,&amp;quot; Powell said, &amp;quot;that there&amp;#39;s something different ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>Chellie Pingree [D, ME-1] Aye Rep. Jared Polis [D, CO-2] Aye Rep. Earl Pomeroy [D, ND-0] Aye Rep. David Price [D, NC-4] Aye Rep. Mike Quigley [D, IL-5] Aye Rep. Nick Rahall [D, WV-3] Aye Rep. Charles Rangel [D, NY-15] Aye Rep. ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...who pull their sycophantic strings. The Democratic females, including the Chair Louise Slaughter, and Doris Matsui and Chellie Pingree, managed to skip out on the final, deeply-unsettling ritual slaughter of democratic process in the House Rules Committ</excerpt>
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