Harry Reid, the Majority Leader, from Nevada, had predicted that the process, known as Vote-O-Rama, would go past two in the morning, and had warned senators to stay close to the chamber.

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"My husband is in the auto industry but I thought they should go through the natural process, " Deb O'Hagan says.

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Sinn Fein MP for West Tyrone, Pat Doherty, was the Parliamentary Secretary for the Minister of Agriculture, Michelle O'Neill, during the decision making process.

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Incredibly, O'Neill advised Cheney to keep politics out of the policy process.

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"Go through the process in your mind where you walk through the ultimate effects of sharing, " Ms. O'Neill says.

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We can thank Paul O'Brien at MoDaCo for doing the honors, and for those interested, the process is pretty simple.

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O'Connell said: ''I am both relieved and happy that the process is now over and the hearing that I received was fair in its decision.

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Its chief executive, Tim O'Toole, said the company will bid again and urged the government to restart the process as soon as possible.

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O'HARA: Jeffrey White says the challenge is to bring the Sunni Arabs into the political process as constructive players.

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