Bill Frist, R-Tennessee, announced his support for tightly limited embryonic stem-cell research, a spokesman for Kerry said the senator felt it was important to make it clear to the White House there were more than just a handful of senators who feel strongly about the issue.

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Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, said the post has a robust support system for families of deployed troops, which would help troops and civilians there handle Thursday's violence.

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R. sent out an appeal for sixty million dollars for the support and eventual resettlement of Iraqi refugees.

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Jim Bunning, R-Kentucky, cited the pardons and what he called Holder's insufficient support for gun rights in opposing the nomination.

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Commercial satellite imagery helps do that, one reason a bi-partisan group of Congressmen, including Senate Select Committee on Intelligence members Mark Warner (D-Va.), Mark Udall (D-Colo.), and Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), sent a letter to Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta requesting full support for the program.

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The House Financial Services Committee Chairman Spencer Bachus (R-AL) is calling for a law to terminate HAMP along with three other housing related support programs.

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