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      <excerpt>...who don't buy insurance. The CBO estimates those offset provisions would reduce the deficit by $104 billion. Petri joined Reps. Paul Ryan, R-Janesville, and James Sensenbrenner, R-Menomonee Falls, this week in a statement attacking the proposal. Petri c</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...who don't buy insurance. The CBO estimates those offset provisions would reduce the deficit by $104 billion. Petri joined Reps. Paul Ryan, R-Janesville, and James Sensenbrenner, R-Menomonee Falls, this week in a statement attacking the proposal. Petri c</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>... Our most underappreciated President, Cal Coolidge, wrote: &#8220;We live in an age of science and of abounding accumulation of material things. They did not create our Declaration [of Independence]. Our Declaration created them. The things of the spirit co</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...may be able to push back the healthcare debate into next year, one of its top House members said Thursday. Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.), the ranking member of the House Budget Committee, said he personally believes the GOP will be able to carry through the </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...it is premised. It is premised on the philosophy that the government knows best how to organize 1/6th of our economy,&#8221; said Rep. Ryan (R-WI) today before visiting Heritage&#8217;s Bloggers Briefing. Ryan was speaking about the current House health bill, a</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...the intention of putting the plans out of business and forcing all senior citizens back into the original Medicare plan. Both Rep. Paul Ryan and Rep. Jeff Flake have proposed alternatives to a costly government takeover with its coercive mandates, while</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...but to offer ideas for how you would fix it.&quot;  He's right. Others offering proposals: Rep. Tom Price of Georgia, Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, Rep. Roy Blunt of Missouri, Rep. John Shadegg of Arizona and Sen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina. We don't agree </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...race with five other candidates, all of whom hope to unseat incumbent U.S. Rep. Chet Edwards, D-Waco. Election expert Paul Ryan with the nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center said last week that the flight restrictions were created to prevent powerful inter</excerpt>
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