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         <title><![CDATA[K Street Files: Getting Interactive with Congress]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Just as Members of Congress and privacy advocates have stepped up their scrutiny of targeted online advertising, the industry's trade group is increasing its footprint in Washington, D.C.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[K Street Files: Beyond the Beltway]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[McBee Strategic Consulting, which has been in growth mode in recent months, has expanded its business to California's tech-heavy Silicon Valley. The firm's new outpost there will focus less on lobbying work and more on advising venture capital investments in alternative energy companies.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/54_18/kfiles/27276-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[K Street Files: K Street Moves]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Anna-Maria Schneider, a former in-house lobbyist for Toyota Motor North America, is parking at the Volkswagen Group of America, where she will be director of industry-government relations. She also served as executive director of government relations for Mitsubishi Motors and as a director for intergovernmental affairs at Global USA.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/54_14/kfiles/27088-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[K Street Files: Lobbying the Lobbyists]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[K Streeters are beginning to lose count of the number of times they've been summoned to meetings to discuss the dicey debate over a bill that would extend a package of popular tax credits. ]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[K Street Files: Iranian Americans Feel the Love]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[The Public Affairs Alliance of Iranian Americans may be just a year old, but it didn't take long for the group to learn the ways of Washington, D.C. In a move to secure cash for campaign contributions, the organization merged earlier this month with the Iranian American Political Action Committee. The marriage means that PAAIA now has about $35,000 next election cycle to promote its mission of community, influence and image building.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Extenders' Plight Sends K St. Into Funk]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[The lobbying environment surrounding an extension of a long list of popular tax credits has become so politically charged and uncertain that K Streeters pushing the measure are doing something akin to hiding under their desks.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/54_9/vested/26833-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Disclosure Rules Eased]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[The devil is always in the details. And for lobbyists who were expecting to have to publicly report in devilishly difficult detail every breakfast, briefing and conference they attended with lawmakers, life just got a little easier.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/54_9/vested/26832-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[K Street Files: Change You Can Bank On?]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Change You Can Bank On? While all that anti-lobbyist hoopla from Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) has caused something of a minor identity crisis on K Street, it turns out that the prospect of an Obama presidency has one firm seeing dollar signs.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/54_8/kfiles/26769-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[K Street Files: Fighting Back]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A group of prominent union lawyers has registered, in no uncertain terms, its deep discontent with new lobby law guidelines set out by the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/54_5/kfiles/26615-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Airlines Launch Speculative Strategy]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Skyrocketing gas prices combined with a flagging economy have left the airline industry flailing. And nobody knows this better than the Air Transport Association.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/54_5/vested/26613-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[One Duly Authorized Successor ]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[When Cal Dooley takes over the reins of the American Chemistry Council this fall, he will become the first former Member of Congress to lead the $118 million-a-year organization. ]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/54_5/vested/26612-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[K Street Files: From Groceries to Chemicals]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[There's much movement afoot in the top slots at some of Washington's most prominent associations. In the latest switch, announced Wednesday, the American Chemistry Council tapped former Democratic Rep. Cal Dooley (Calif.) to lead its association.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/54_4/kfiles/26552-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[K Street Files: Taking on the "Scarlet F"]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[It didn't take long before foreign companies with U.S. subsidiaries started trying to thwart a bill that would require them to register as foreign agents. ]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/54_1/kfiles/26401-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Docs, Seniors Press for Medicare Pay Fix]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[After spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on ad campaigns to pressure Republican Senators and mobilizing millions of senior citizens to call Congressional offices, there is no guarantee that either the American Medical Association or the AARP will get much bang for their buck when the Senate has its second vote on the so-called Medicare doctors' fix this week.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/54_1/vested/26400-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Sowing Seeds of Victory]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Dressed in a dark pinstripe suit with a blue striped shirt and tie, John Boyd Jr. looks the part of Washington insider. ]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/54_1/vested/26399-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Lobbyists Strike Hard Before Summer Torpor Sets In]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[With precious little time remaining on the legislative calendar, K Street is mobilizing this week to capitalize on the next five weeks before Congress heads full-scale into August recess and the campaign season.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/54_1/vested/26397-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[K Street Files: Panic Mode]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[The new, dreaded lobbyist disclosure 203 forms have not yet been unveiled by the House or Senate, but that isn't stopping the cottage industry of ethics experts from holding pricey seminars on how to fill out those soon-to-come forms.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/53_156/kfiles/26146-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[A Resurgent Dogfight Over Tanker]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Lawmakers and lobbyists are seizing on the recent firings of top Air Force officials and a new highly critical Government Accountability Office report to steer a multibillion-dollar tanker aircraft contract to the Pentagon's largest weapons builder, Boeing Co.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/53_156/vested/26145-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Blue Dogs' Bite Gets Stronger]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Blue Dogs get ready: The ranks of obsequious lobbyists looking to curry favor — and contribute to your war chest — is set to explode.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/53_156/vested/26144-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[A Heady Brew]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[It may be a Belgian-Brazilian brewing company, but InBev is already aware of the political muscle it needs to secure support for its bid to buy St. Louis-based Anheuser-Busch Cos. ]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/53_152/kfiles/25928-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[K Street Lies in Wait for Next Year]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[With this summer's dismal business backdrop — the final year of a lame-duck administration, a sagging economy and a raging election season on the horizon — K Street can hardly wait for 2009.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/53_152/vested/25923-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Six Indian Tribes Fight for Recognition]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[The peace treaties forged between Virginia's Indian tribes and English settlers in the 17th century were so influential that tribal members in buckskin and feathers still deliver wild game and fish to the governor's mansion in Richmond each Thanksgiving.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/53_152/vested/25922-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[New Fuel for API]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[When Jack Gerard took over as president and CEO of the American Chemistry Council, he brought with him sweeping changes and downsizing. But the newly named head-to-be of the American Petroleum Institute said he doesn't expect a wholesale revamp of API, which is currently run by Red Cavaney.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/53_148/kfiles/25724-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Nuclear Energy Poisons Legislative Environment]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[In the end, it wasn't a skirmish over nuclear power that blew up a sweeping climate change bill in the Senate last week — it was instead partisan politics and bickering over judicial nominations. ]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/53_148/vested/25723-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Staying in the Black ]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Its most powerful rainmaker may be gone, but BKSH &amp; Associates is still betting on Black.In recent months, the venerable lobby shop has faced not only the departure of one of its founding members and key strategists, Charlie Black, to a prominent role in presumptive GOP presidential nominee John McCain's campaign, it has also taken heat for the work Black did on behalf of half a dozen foreign dictators, starting in the mid-1980s.  ]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/53_148/vested/25722-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[No 'Union Made' at the DNC]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Donations from union and liberal lobbying organizations are just as unwelcome at the Democratic National Committee as contributions from any corporate political action committee or typical fat-cat K Streeter.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/53_148/vested/25717-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Travel Blues]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[When the Travel Industry Association last week released a study showing that travelers are avoiding the not-so-friendly skies because it's a pain in the neck to fly, it was just the beginning of what could become a tiff between airlines and the rest of the travel industry.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/53_144/kfiles/25493-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Hastert Follows Wynn, Joins Dickstein Shapiro]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Former Speaker Dennis Hastert is performing a legislative encore of sorts.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/53_144/vested/25492-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[A Victory Receipt ]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[In a contentious and drawn-out presidential election year, the odds are against any bill making it through Congress and landing on the president's desk.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/53_144/vested/25491-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[A New Twist in the Lobby Law: Auditors ]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Lobbyists beware, the auditors are coming. ]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/53_144/vested/25490-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Trading Up]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[In case you missed the memo, May is world trade month. And the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, along with the Bush administration, is marking the occasion — first recognized by President Franklin Roosevelt — with a fresh lobbying heave-ho to push for languishing free-trade agreements on Capitol Hill.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/53_139/kfiles/25210-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Private Equity Indignation Soothed by Contributions  ]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Last year, during the height of proposals to increase taxes on private equity companies and hedge funds, one firm, The Blackstone Group, paid its lobbying shop more than $4.4 million, a meteoric sum by any K Street standards.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/53_139/vested/25206-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Trade Groups Trip Over Disclosure Rule ]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[The first-quarter lobbying disclosures appear to have been filed without much of a hitch so far, as the first real changes to the lobby laws in more than 10 years take effect. ]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/53_139/vested/25203-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Dispensing With Lobbyists ]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[While much of the biotechnology industry is gearing up for a potential health care battle next Congress, two companies have begun drawing down their political muscle.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/53_139/vested/25201-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Armey's Camouflage]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Former House Majority Leader Dick Armey may be singing the praises of the "blood, sweat and tears" that go into creating music and the need for artists to get royalties for songs played on the radio, but what he won't tell you is that he's getting paid to do it by the Recording Industry Association of America.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/53_137/kfiles/23625-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[K St.’s ‘Max Out’ Crowd ]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[The 20 top K Street donors this election cycle have handed federal candidates nearly $1.8 million in personal cash. The majority of that money, $1.3 million, has gone to help Democrats as the party in charge of Capitol Hill looks to expand its majority.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/53_135/vested/23560-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Regime Change]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Pakistan has a new man in Washington. The country’s government, which came under fresh leadership after elections on Feb. 18, has hired Locke Lord Strategies partner Mark Siegel, a longtime confidant of the late Benazir Bhutto, who was assassinated in December while campaigning. The contract is worth $900,000 a year.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/53_135/kfiles/23559-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Enviros Take on Ethanol]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Nobody said going green would be easy. But for Democrats and Republicans looking for a win in last year's energy bill, the renewable fuel standard seemed like a natural target. ]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/53_135/vested/23558-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[A Different Direction]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Chairman Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) has ended employment talks with Andrew Lowenthal, a lobbyist who counts mortgage brokers among his clients and was in the process of leaving his firm to become Dodd’s chief of staff, sources close to the situation said.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/53_132/kfiles/23445-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Who’s Driving NAM?]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[After a much-publicized legal defeat, the National Association of Manufacturers last week reluctantly complied with new lobbying disclosure rules that require organizations to list their members. NAM, which is still fighting in the courts, named 65 of its members in its first quarterly report for 2008.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/53_131/kfiles/23418-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[‘Specials’ Merit Special Attention From Lobbyists]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[As if lobbyists didn’t already get enough pressure from Members to donate to their thirsty campaign coffers, this year, in a Congress marked by resignations and deaths, candidates in special elections are mining the pockets of K Street as well.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/53_131/vested/23417-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[A Sweet Deal]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[While most agriculture industries are nervously waiting to see what the final draft of the farm bill looks like, Big Sugar is sitting pretty.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/53_131/vested/23416-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Party Time]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Convention ethics rules have made party-going lobbyists even more skittish than usual. And while many have said they plan to eschew the conventions completely, the C2 Group is taking a stand: The party must go on.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/53_127/kfiles/23266-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[A New Force on K Street ]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[At first glance, there’s nothing unusual about the fundraiser this week for Rep. Solomon Ortiz. On Tuesday night, lobbyists representing telecom, technology, financial services, energy and other interests will gather at Sonoma, a Capitol Hill wine bar, to pitch in for the Texas Democrat’s re-election.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/53_127/vested/23263-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Women’s Lobby Fails To Deliver]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Timing is everything in Congressional politics. And the timing should have been perfect for the women’s lobby — or at least that’s what the group thought as the Senate took up the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act on Wednesday night. ]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/53_127/vested/23260-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Scoring the Lenders: a Risky Affair ]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[As the House Financial Services Committee prepares to vote this week on a mortgage rescue bill, Becky Walzak and her team of lobbyists are pushing an amendment that she says would hold lenders more accountable for the loans they make and ultimately save taxpayers’ money.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/53_127/vested/23259-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Victories That Are Union-Made?]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[Last week, AFL-CIO President John Sweeney took to the podium at a press conference in the Rayburn House Office Building. Flanked by two of his union’s most ardent supporters in the Congress, Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) and Rep. Phil Hare (D-Ill.), Sweeney passionately proclaimed his opposition to a free-trade agreement with Colombia.]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/53_123/vested/23134-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[City Hall on the Potomac]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[The Big Apple is 200 miles to the north, but for the employees who work in the city’s sleek Washington office, they might as well be in Manhattan.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[A Win for Reformers, Part II]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[The National Association of Manufacturers on Friday was handed its second setback in as many weeks in its effort to avoid complying with a part of the new lobbying law it contends is unconstitutional. ]]></description>
         <link>http://www.rollcall.com/issues/53_123/kfiles/23130-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Freezing Out the Little Guy]]></title>
         <description><![CDATA[A 548-page Senate bill to put the chill on global warming would carry a multibillion-dollar price tag for U.S. corporations. But a tiny provision buried deep within the measure could wipe out an obscure industry sector and render the days of cheap, do-it-yourself air conditioning repairs a relic of the past.]]></description>
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