IF YOU require a monument to the late Congressman John Murtha, just look around Johnstown in western Pennsylvania.

如果你非要找一座已故国会议员约翰·默萨的纪念碑的话，到宾夕法尼亚西部的约翰斯敦来看看吧。

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Long-time Murtha aide and Democrat Mark Critz won that seat Tuesday in a conservative district that voted for Republican John McCain over Democrat Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential election.

VOA: standard.2010.05.19

"Or whether it is really even a wave." Hawkings says Democrats say there is no upcoming Republican "wave" which will sweep scores of them from office, pointing to a special election for the U.S.House seat for the late Congressman John Murtha of Pennsylvania.

VOA: standard.2010.05.19

In a district that had more Democrats than Republicans, 41-year-old Democratic state legislator John Murtha eked out a 230-vote victory.

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Rep. John Murtha, a leading critic of the war, said the amendment would have removed any leverage the bill would give the United States over the shaky Iraqi government.

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Before the House vote, Rep. John Murtha, a Pennsylvania Democrat, told CNN's Wolf Blitzer: We're the people who decide when to go to war, whether the war should be funded.

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