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I support exemptions from the estate tax to ensure that when Maine farm owners die, their families will be able to continue to farm the land that they have protected and lived on, often for generations.

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Family farms and small businesses are the backbone of our communities.

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What our Republican friends are doing, if we look at what they do and not what they say, they have decided that the most important thing in this country is to increase payments for interest on the national debt.

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If the parties get too close together they lose their identities, if they get too far apart you're not going to get a whole lot done because you almost always need to have some folks on the other side of the aisle to accomplish anything.

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But like the rest of the country, Maine has reached an impasse, for most of the mercury that fouls our skies, waters and land comes from outside our borders.

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Things are historically specific to the time, ... This is kind of a crisis time. People are paying 4 a gallon for gasoline. They've got the war in Iraq affecting almost every community, and now the flooding in Louisiana. Things like that get on our nerves. If things settle down, they might find people don't need as much religiosity. That's hard to predict.

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Both CEI and the Genesis Fund have proven track records in providing financing services to support affordable housing and community development projects in target Maine communities, ... CEI will use its grant to supply equity capital for its affordable housing initiatives in Western Maine. The Genesis Fund grant will enable the organization to provide permanent financing for both affordable housing and community facility projects in underserved Maine communities. These CDFI grants are yet another example of how a modest investment of federal aid can go a long way in making it possible for Maine people to address important community needs.

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I am confident that the British people will not be intimidated by terrorism.

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Yet, much of what lies beneath the ocean's surface remains a mystery, and our nation continues to rely on a confused, antiquated system of ocean governance.

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Stem cell research holds out the promise of finding cures and treatments for a wide range of diseases.

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I find hard to believe we are having this hearing today to consider 10 billion in cuts to Medicaid, ... Survivors of Hurricane Katrina are now scattered across the country and in need of significantly more Medicaid resources than they did before.

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I think we have a moral obligation to our children that can be easily summarized number one, protect them from harm.

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President Bush's mercury rule is a gift to the big energy companies that helped put him in office.

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In 1995, sanctions led Sudan to cut its ties with terrorists and expel Osama bin Laden.

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Winter in Maine is a time of alternating rest and frenzied activity.

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These kids understood what is not immediately obvious that they were going to pay the bills for tax cuts that had been passed today or in the last 4 years, and for the war in Iraq, because essentially we are borrowing money to do those things.

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They don't have special rights because we have civil rights laws that protect them. The laws work both ways.

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We are spending 1 billion a week in Iraq.

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Mercury pollution from power plants is a national problem that requires a national response.

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The best thing about our team is we have a lot of kids that nobody really knows about. But in time, we feel like they will emerge.

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When she moved out to go be with Rick, she told me I'd like him, that he was pro-choice and a humanist. But I don't think there's a humanist bone in that man's body.

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The mercury rule writers also ignored mercury's special qualities.

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Maine's long and cold winters may help keep our State's population low, but our harsh climate also accounts for what is unique and valuable about our land and our people.

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In this part of the world, only Maine gives winter the welcome and the worship it should have.

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Neither one of those guys had ever played there, but they both stepped up. And (tackle) Mark Crawford, prior to last week, he hadn't played since eighth grade, but he's 6-2, 295 (pounds) with good speed. The whole group is so raw, but the technique will come. There is great upside.

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