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<p><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=</font></b></p><section class="article-body abody-238601"><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; line-height: 18px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> a little-noticed 6-3 vote today, the House Administration Committee voted along party lines to eliminate the <a href="https://www.eac.gov/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">Election Assistance Commission</a>, which helps states run elections and is the only federal agency charged with making sure voting machines can’t be hacked. The EAC was created after the disastrous 2000 election in Florida as part of the Help America Vote Act to rectify problems like butterfly ballots and hanging chads. (Republicans have tried to <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/12/war-voting-comes-washington" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">kill the agency</a> for years.) The Committee also voted to eliminate the public-financing system for presidential elections dating back to the 1970s.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; line-height: 18px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“It is my firm belief that the EAC has outlived its usefulness and purpose,” said Committee chair<b> Gregg Harper (R-MS), </b>explaining why his bill transfers the EAC’s authority to the Federal Election Commission.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; line-height: 18px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Thirty-eight pro-democracy groups, including the NAACP and Common Cause, <a href="http://www.democracy21.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Letter-to-House-Admin-opposing-bills.pdf" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">denounced the vote</a>. “The EAC is the only federal agency which has as its central mission the improvement of election administration, and it undertakes essential activities that no other institution is equipped to address,” says the <a href="http://www.brennancenter.org/analysis/brennan-center-letter-house-do-not-terminate-only-federal-agency-improving-voter-systems" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">Brennan Center for Justice</a>.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; line-height: 18px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">This move is particularly worrisome given reports that suspected Russian hackers attempted to access voter-registration systems in more than <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/russian-hackers-targeted-half-states-voter-registration-systems/story?id=42435822" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">20 states</a> during the 2016 election. Moreover, the Presidential Commission on Election Administration set up by President Obama in 2014 outlined an “impending crisis” in voting technology and the Brennan Center found that <a href="https://www.brennancenter.org/publication/americas-voting-machines-risk" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">42 states</a> used voting machines in 2016 that were at least a decade-old and at risk of failing. The EAC was the agency tasked with making sure these voting systems were both modernized and secure.</font></p><aside class="left takeaction indent custom_background_238601" /></section><aside class="left takeaction indent custom_background_238601" /><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; line-height: 18px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The EAC is not a perfect agency. It lacked a quorum of members from 2010 to 2014 and was paralyzed by inaction. Then, last year, its executive director unilaterally approved controversial <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/11/opinion/republicans-hijack-an-election-agency.html?r=0" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">proof-of-citizenship laws</a> in Kansas, Georgia, and Alabama, which the federal courts subsequently <a href="http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/10/493405211/court-blocks-proof-of-citizenship-requirement-for-voters-in-3-states" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">blocked</a>.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; line-height: 18px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">But given the threats to American democracy at this moment, the EAC needs to be strengthened, not replaced.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; line-height: 18px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">It’s particularly ironic that the Trump administration is preparing to launch a massive investigation into nonexistent voter fraud based on the lie that <a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/donald-trump-is-the-greatest-threat-to-american-democracy-in-our-lifetime/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">millions voted illegally</a> while House Republicans are shutting down the agency that is supposed to make sure America’s elections are secure. It’s more proof of how the GOP’s real agenda is to make it <a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/as-attorney-general-jeff-sessions-would-be-a-threat-to-civil-rights/?nc=1" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">harder to vote</a>.</font></p><p><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=</font></b></p><p><b>
</b></p><p><b>Adam Kinziger (IL-11) has taken the Koch-funded Americans For Prosperity's "no climate tax" pledge, along with Bass, Gardner, Griffith, Harper, McKinley, McMorris Rodgers, Olson, Pompeo, and Walden. Of the 13 incoming members, I consider 8 to be clearly infected with Teh Stoopid, while the AF</b>P pledge
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The website of <a href="http://www.harper.house.gov/news/2009/dec/copenhagen.html">Gregg Harper</a> (MS-03) provides a clue to the likely priorities of the next Congress: hobbling the Environmental Protection Agency.</p>
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<p>“I’ve joined Representative Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee and the House Republican leadership in co-sponsoring H.R. 391, which excludes carbon dioxide from the definition of the term ‘air pollutant’ in the Clean Air Act. Passing this bill is essential to halting the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to regulate carbon dioxide.”</p>
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<p> ===</p><p>The website of <a href="http://www.harper.house.gov/news/2009/dec/copenhagen.html">Gregg Harper</a> (MS-03) provides a clue to the likely priorities of the next Congress: hobbling the Environmental Protection Agency.
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<p>“I’ve joined Representative Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee and the
House Republican leadership in co-sponsoring H.R. 391, which excludes
carbon dioxide from the definition of the term ‘air pollutant’ in the
Clean Air Act. Passing this bill is essential to halting the
Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to regulate carbon dioxide.”
</p><p></p><p><b>Gregg Harper</b> has been a <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/United_States_Republican_Party" title="United States Republican Party" class="mw-redirect">Republican</a> member of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives" class="mw-redirect">United States House of Representatives</a>, representing the 3rd district of the State of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Category:Members_of_the_U.S._Congress_from_Mississippi" title="Category:Members of the U.S. Congress from Mississippi">Mississippi</a>, since 2009 (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://nationalatlas.gov/printable/images/preview/congdist/ms03_110.gif">map</a>).</p>
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<ul><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Gregg_Harper#Positions.2C_record_and_controversies"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Positions, record and controversies</span></a>
<ul><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Gregg_Harper#Immigration"><span class="tocnumber">1.1</span> <span class="toctext">Immigration</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Gregg_Harper#National_Security"><span class="tocnumber">1.2</span> <span class="toctext">National Security</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Gregg_Harper#Special_Needs_Children"><span class="tocnumber">1.3</span> <span class="toctext">Special Needs Children</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Gregg_Harper#Social_Issues"><span class="tocnumber">1.4</span> <span class="toctext">Social Issues</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Gregg_Harper#Fiscal_Responsibility"><span class="tocnumber">1.5</span> <span class="toctext">Fiscal Responsibility</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Gregg_Harper#Second_Amendment"><span class="tocnumber">1.6</span> <span class="toctext">Second Amendment</span></a></li></ul>
</li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Gregg_Harper#Bio"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Bio</span></a>
<ul><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-9"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Gregg_Harper#2008_elections"><span class="tocnumber">2.1</span> <span class="toctext">2008 elections</span></a></li></ul>
</li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-10"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Gregg_Harper#Money_in_politics"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Money in politics</span></a>
<ul><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-11"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Gregg_Harper#Campaign_contributions"><span class="tocnumber">3.1</span> <span class="toctext">Campaign contributions</span></a></li></ul>
</li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-12"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Gregg_Harper#Committees_and_affiliations"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">Committees and affiliations</span></a>
<ul><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-13"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Gregg_Harper#Committees"><span class="tocnumber">4.1</span> <span class="toctext">Committees</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-14"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Gregg_Harper#Affiliations"><span class="tocnumber">4.2</span> <span class="toctext">Affiliations</span></a></li></ul>
</li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-15"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Gregg_Harper#More_background_data"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">More background data</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-16"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Gregg_Harper#Contact"><span class="tocnumber">6</span> <span class="toctext">Contact</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-17"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Gregg_Harper#Articles_and_resources"><span class="tocnumber">7</span> <span class="toctext">Articles and resources</span></a>
<ul><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-18"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Gregg_Harper#Related_SourceWatch_articles"><span class="tocnumber">7.1</span> <span class="toctext">Related SourceWatch articles</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-19"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Gregg_Harper#Sources"><span class="tocnumber">7.2</span> <span class="toctext">Sources</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-20"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Gregg_Harper#External_resources"><span class="tocnumber">7.3</span> <span class="toctext">External resources</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-21"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Gregg_Harper#External_articles"><span class="tocnumber">7.4</span> <span class="toctext">External articles</span></a></li></ul>
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<h2> <span class="mw-headline" id="Positions.2C_record_and_controversies">Positions, record and controversies</span></h2>
<h3> <span class="mw-headline" id="Immigration">Immigration</span></h3>
<p>Harpers believes we need to enforce current immigrations laws rather
than create new ones. He also supports making English America's official
language. <sup id="cite_ref-issues_0-0" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Gregg_Harper#cite_note-issues-0">[1]</a></sup></p>
<h3> <span class="mw-headline" id="National_Security">National Security</span></h3>
<p>To enhance American national security, Harper says he supports
continuing the missile defense program, and fighting terrorists abroad,
as well as, providing the military with the proper tools to fight
terror. <sup id="cite_ref-issues_0-1" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Gregg_Harper#cite_note-issues-0">[1]</a></sup></p>
<h3> <span class="mw-headline" id="Special_Needs_Children">Special Needs Children</span></h3>
<p>Harper wants to promote better understanding of children with special
needs, and the their issues. He also wants to provide support to
families with special needs children, and encourage funding for research
about treating special needs children. He says he supports and would
advocate for programs that allow these children to have rewarding lives.
<sup id="cite_ref-issues_0-2" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Gregg_Harper#cite_note-issues-0">[1]</a></sup></p>
<h3> <span class="mw-headline" id="Social_Issues">Social Issues</span></h3>
<p>Harper supports protecting traditional marriage, as well as protecting the unborn. <sup id="cite_ref-issues_0-3" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Gregg_Harper#cite_note-issues-0">[1]</a></sup></p>
<h3> <span class="mw-headline" id="Fiscal_Responsibility">Fiscal Responsibility</span></h3>
<p>To restore fiscal responsibility, Harper says he will reduce spending, oppose tax increases and work for a balanced budget. <sup id="cite_ref-issues_0-4" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Gregg_Harper#cite_note-issues-0">[1]</a></sup></p>
<h3> <span class="mw-headline" id="Second_Amendment">Second Amendment</span></h3>
<p>Harper says he will work to defend 2nd Amendment rights by supporting
the right to keep and bear arms, engage in the sport of hunting, and
advocating for national laws that guarantee a right to defend home and
family. <sup id="cite_ref-issues_0-5" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Gregg_Harper#cite_note-issues-0">[1]</a></sup></p>
<h2> <span class="mw-headline" id="Bio">Bio</span></h2>
<h3> <span class="mw-headline" id="2008_elections">2008 elections</span></h3>
<p>On April 1, 2008, Harper won the Republican nomination to replace Rep. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Chip_Pickering" title="Chip Pickering">Chip Pickering</a> (R-Miss.) in the 2008 congressional elections.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Gregg_Harper#cite_note-1">[2]</a></sup> He went on to defeat Democratic nominee <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Joel_Gill" title="Joel Gill">Joel Gill</a> in the November 2008 general election.<sup id="cite_ref-greenpapers_2-0" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Gregg_Harper#cite_note-greenpapers-2">[3]</a></sup></p>
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<h2> <span class="mw-headline" id="Money_in_politics">Money in politics</span></h2>
<p>This section contains links to – and feeds from – money in politics databases.</p>
<h3> <span class="mw-headline" id="Campaign_contributions">Campaign contributions</span></h3>
<p>The following is drawn from government records of campaign
contributions to Gregg Harper. Campaign contributions are one of the
most direct conduits for influencing members of Congress. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/SouceWatch:Using_congressional_campaign_contribution_information" title="SouceWatch:Using congressional campaign contribution information" class="mw-redirect">How to use this information.</a> <crpcontribdata>cid=N00029632&cycle=2008</crpcontribdata></p>
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<h2> <span class="mw-headline" id="Committees_and_affiliations">Committees and affiliations</span></h2>
<h3> <span class="mw-headline" id="Committees">Committees</span></h3>
<p>Harper will be assigned committees if and when he is elected to Congress.</p>
<h3> <span class="mw-headline" id="Affiliations">Affiliations</span></h3>
<h2> <span class="mw-headline" id="More_background_data">More background data</span></h2>
<h2> <span class="mw-headline" id="Contact">Contact</span></h2>
<p><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.greggharperforcongress.com/">Gregg Harper for Congress</a>
3 Country Place Drive
Pearl, MS 39208
601-420-2211 - Michael Cravens
Email: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="mailto:info@greggharperforcongress.com">info@greggharperforcongress.com</a></p>
<h2> <span class="mw-headline" id="Articles_and_resources">Articles and resources</span></h2>
<h3> <span class="mw-headline" id="Related_SourceWatch_articles">Related SourceWatch articles</span></h3>
<ul><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/2008_U.S._congressional_elections" title="2008 U.S. congressional elections">2008 U.S. congressional elections</a>
<ul><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/2008_U.S._congressional_election_dates" title="2008 U.S. congressional election dates" class="mw-redirect">2008 U.S. congressional election dates</a></li></ul>
</li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Portal:Mississippi_and_the_U.S._Congress" title="Portal:Mississippi and the U.S. Congress">Portal:Mississippi and the U.S. Congress</a></li></ul>
<h3> <span class="mw-headline" id="Sources">Sources</span></h3>
<ol class="references"><li id="cite_note-issues-0">↑ <sup><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Gregg_Harper#cite_ref-issues_0-0">1.0</a></sup> <sup><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Gregg_Harper#cite_ref-issues_0-1">1.1</a></sup> <sup><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Gregg_Harper#cite_ref-issues_0-2">1.2</a></sup> <sup><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Gregg_Harper#cite_ref-issues_0-3">1.3</a></sup> <sup><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Gregg_Harper#cite_ref-issues_0-4">1.4</a></sup> <sup><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Gregg_Harper#cite_ref-issues_0-5">1.5</a></sup> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.greggharperforcongress.com/issues.html">Gregg Harper for Congress| Issues</a></span></li><li id="cite_note-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Gregg_Harper#cite_ref-1">↑</a> <span class="reference-text">Emily Wagster Pettus <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=4570712">"Mississippi Holds Congressional Runoffs"</a>, “ABC News”, April 2, 2008, Accessed April 2, 2008</span></li><li id="cite_note-greenpapers-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Gregg_Harper#cite_ref-greenpapers_2-0">↑</a> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.thegreenpapers.com/G08/MS.phtml">"Mississippi 2008 General Election"</a>, TheGreenPapers.com, November 4, 2008</span></li></ol>
<h3> <span class="mw-headline" id="External_resources">External resources</span></h3>
<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.2008racetracker.com/page/MS-03">2008 Race Tracker page on Mississippi's 3rd Congressional District</a></li><li>Leah Rupp, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080311/NEWS04/80311056">"Ross, Harper head to runoff in GOP primary for 3rd District,</a> March 11, 2008.</li></ul>
<h3> <span class="mw-headline" id="External_articles">External articles</span></h3>
<p><b>Corresponding article on <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregg_Harper">Wikipedia</a> and <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.causecaller.com/wiki/Gregg_Harper">Cause Caller</a>. (If Cause Caller link does not work, pick from its list of <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.causecaller.com/wiki/Senator">senators</a> and <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.causecaller.com/wiki/Representative">representatives</a>.)</b></p>
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