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  <name>Rep. Norman Dicks [D, WA-6]</name>
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      <excerpt>...heating system at the jail to installing heat pumps in old houses.  It also will be used to hire Ryan Dicks &#8211; son of U.S. Rep. Norm Dicks, D-Belfair &#8211; to be the county&#8217;s sustainability manager. In announcing the grant, County Executive Pat McCarth</excerpt>
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      <title>$4.4 million for cleaner air</title>
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      <excerpt>...add as much as $5 million per plane to a rival trans-Atlantic team's bid to supply new U.S. mid-air refueling aircraft. Rep. Norm Dicks, a member of the House of Representatives Defense Appropriations subcommittee, floated the figure as part of a renewe</excerpt>
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      <title>Boeing ally eyes adding $5M duty to Airbus planes in tanker deal</title>
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      <excerpt>...of international agreements as well as fundamental WTO rules.&quot; Here are some comments from Washington representatives:  Rep. Norm Dicks, D-Bremerton -- &quot;(T)he Defense Department appears to want ignore the position that U.S. Trade Representative has take</excerpt>
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      <excerpt> Votes in favor of that bill included the following: Norm Dicks (D-Wash), Jane Harman (D-Cal), Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio), Alan Mollohan (D-WVa), Jim Moran (D-Va) ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt> Congressman Norm Dicks, who attended the ceremony, said, &amp;quot;Restoring fish passage in the Nisqually watershed is the latest development toward improving water ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt> US Rep. Brian Baird said today that his name should have been among Northwest congressional colleagues who signed a letter ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt> Norm Dicks, Adam Smith, Jim mcdermott and Jay Inslee; and retired Lt. Gen. William Harrison of Lakewood, a former Fort Lewis commander. ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt> I would like to thank Rep. Norm Dicks for his vote for HR 3962 (The Affordable Health Care for America Act). It took courage to stand up to the special ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt> Rep. Norm Dicks is convinced that 535 people in Washington, DC, have the intelligence and right to decide what is acceptable health insurance coverage for ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt> The ceremony was not open to the general public. A variety of dignitaries turned out, including US Rep. Norm Dicks (D-Belfair) and Adam Smith (D-Tacoma). </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>Bray all you want about the way U.S. Rep. Norm Dicks is saving us from ourselves on health insurance &#8220;reform,&#8221; as the leadership maligns insurers and jaws about cutting doctors and hospitals fees. The truth, as found on pages 1431-1433 ...</excerpt>
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      <title>Kitsap Caucus &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Is Bremerton the Beer Caucus?</title>
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      <excerpt>Representative Norm Dicks (D-WA). Representative Henry Brown (R-SC). Representative Phil Hare (D-IL). Representative Lynn Jenkins (R-KS). George Landrith, President, Frontiers of Freedom. Jim Arkedis, Director, National Security Project ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>Chopp, who grew up in Bremerton, Wash., likes to describe himself as a &amp;quot;Bremerton Democrat&amp;quot; (translation: &amp;quot;I&amp;#39;m almost like Norm Dicks. Besides, I don&amp;#39;t smoke pot; I drink beer. Vote for me, please! ... Yet Chopp&amp;#39;s timidity on the</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>... the Native American Graves Repatriation Act, the American Indian Religious Freedom Act, the Endangered Species Act, NEPA and many other laws,&amp;quot; said Rep. Norm Dicks, Washington Democrat. &amp;quot;We tried to focus this like a rifle shot.&amp;quot; ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>At one point, Choi led the audience in placing a phone call, while onstage, to Washington Congressman Norm Dicks, leaving a message on the representative&amp;#39;s voicemail telling him to support HR 1283, the current legislation (Military ...</excerpt>
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