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      <excerpt> Second District Rep. Mike Michaud, D-Maine, said it is unlikely the House bill will be accepted by the Senate. He said it&amp;#39;s important that the House and ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt> LEWISTON, ME &#8211; Congressman Mike Michaud, a member of the House Small Business Committee, joined small business owners and representatives from local ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt> WASHINGTON, DC &#8211; Congressman Mike Michaud announced that a $475000 investment that he worked to secure has been approved by the US Department of Housing and ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt> WASHINGTON, DC &#8211; Congressman Mike Michaud, a member of the fiscally conservative Blue Dog Coalition, joined his colleagues in introducing a &#8220;Blueprint for ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt> Maine&amp;#39;s two represenatives, 1st District Congresswoman Chellie Pingree and 2nd District Congresssman Mike Michaud, both Democrats, also commended the ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt> Pingree is running for re-election this fall, as is her fellow House Democrat from Maine, Mike Michaud. A spokesman for Michaud says that the congressman ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt> But to do this, we need to reform trade policy and review existing trade agreements. A bill introduced by Rep. Mike Michaud in the House and Sen. ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt> The Trade Reform, Accountability, Development and Employment (TRADE) Act, HR 3012, was introduced in the House of Representatives by Rep. Mike Michaud ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>Susan Collins (R), Rep. Chellie Pingree (D), and Rep. Mike Michaud (D), have joined Snowe in characterizing the distribution of LIHEAP funds as unfairly skewed toward Southern states and away from cold weather states like Maine. ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>P.P.S. Apparently the House has four (former) blue-collar workers: Phil Hare of Illinois, Stephen Lynch of Massachusetts, Mike Michaud of Maine, and Bob Brady of Pennsylvania. I don&amp;#39;t know how many former nurses, ... Easier way to make  Congress more r</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>2, U.S. Representatives Mike Michaud (D-Maine) and Don Manzullo (R-16) joined with Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.) and Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio) to send a letter to congressional leaders urging them to make strong patent protection policy an ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>Mike Michaud and Chellie Pingree. &amp;quot;I support the president&amp;#39;s proposal to have the Pentagon do an analysis of the implications and consequences of changing the policy,&amp;quot; said Collins, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee. ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>Thanks to Scott Taylor of the Lewiston Sun Journal for printing this great anecdote: 2nd CD Rep. Mike Michaud was taking a typical pols&amp;#39; walkabout of an Auburn public facility, accompanyed by new Mayor Dick Gleason. ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>According to the entry, &#8220;notable contributors&#8221; include Tom Allen, Mike Michaud, and Susan Collins. Could it be more misleading? I guess by contributions they mean things like this where they show campaign form messages sent to anyone ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>Its current symbol is Rep. Mike Michaud&amp;#39;s (D-Maine) TRADE Act, advertised as a &amp;quot;new model&amp;quot; for trade policy designed to ease anxiety by rewriting existing trade agreements. It is an earnest, emotional effort whose effects would be the ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>&amp;quot;Today, Mike Michaud and his cronies voted to allow the government to spend an additional $2 Trillion dollars it doesn&amp;#39;t have. By increasing the debt limit to $14.3 Trillion, Congressman Michaud and his colleagues have signed off on the ...</excerpt>
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