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  Biography of David Durenberger - Kaiser Family Foundation
Senator Durenberger began his lifelong commitment to public policy reform as Chief of Staff to Governor Harold LeVander of Minnesota in 1966, when Medicare, Medicaid, and the Great Society's myriad of categorical health, welfare, and social programs were being launched in Washington.
During his Senate career, David Durenberger chaired the Intergovernmental Relations Subcommittee, led President Reagan's New Federalism effort in 1982, was a 14-year member of the Advisory Committee on Intergovernmental Relations, and served as Vice Chair of the Pepper Commission in 1989-1990.
Senator Durenberger was also a member of HHS Secretary Otis Bowen's Medicare Catastrophic Committee, the Congressional Bio Ethics Committee, the National Infant Mortality Commission, and the Congressional Advisory Committee to the Office of Technology Assessment.
www.kff.org /about/durenberger.cfm   (276 words)

  
  David Durenberger - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: )
On November 7, 1978, Durenberger was elected to complete the unexpired term of Senator Hubert H. Humphrey, whose position had temporarily been filled by Humphrey's wife Muriel.
He was reelected in 1982 and again in 1988, serving from November 8, 1978 to January 3, 1995, as he did not for reelection in 1994.
Durenberger was unanimously denounced by the Senate on July 25, 1990 for unethical conduct relating to outside income.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Dave_Durenberger   (133 words)

  
 Sen. Dave Durenberger Joins Health Fitness Corporation's Board of Directors
Durenberger served three terms in the Senate, sponsoring numerous bills that focused on public health and safety.
Durenberger is president of Policy Insight, LLC, a business consulting firm for health policy interests both in the United States and globally.
Durenberger continues to influence the future of health policy through his commission and board positions.
www.prweb.com /releases/2007/8/prweb546428.htm   (820 words)

  
  Sen. Dave Durenberger Joins Health Fitness Corporation's Board of Directors
Durenberger served three terms in the Senate, sponsoring numerous bills that focused on public health and safety.
Durenberger is president of Policy Insight, LLC, a business consulting firm for health policy interests both in the United States and globally.
Durenberger continues to influence the future of health policy through his commission and board positions.
www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/08-13-2007/0004644225&EDATE=   (616 words)

  
 Durenberger wields new influence
Durenberger and others are concerned that the quest for the latest in technology is fueling overspending by hospitals as they compete for patients.
Durenberger, a Republican, was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1978 to fill the remainder of the term of the late Hubert Humphrey.
Durenberger was denounced, a mild form of reprimand, on the Senate floor in 1990, and in 1995 he pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges involving $3,800 in overpayments from reimbursements for staying in his Minneapolis condo.
www.startribune.com /535/story/1007982.html   (741 words)

  
 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Dave
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www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Dave   (1325 words)

  
 The Minnesota Daily - Network - Thursday November 30, 1995   (Site not responding. Last check: )
ASHINGTON (AP) -- Former Sen. Dave Durenberger was sentenced to a year of probation and fined $1,000 Wednesday, ending the ethics case that destroyed his political career.
Durenberger was indicted in 1993 on felony charges that he improperly billed the Senate $3,825 for nights he spent in a Minneapolis condominium he owned.
His voice breaking, Durenberger described for the judge how the case had disgraced him in the Senate, made him the subject of hundreds of embarrassing news stories and cost him his law license.
www.mndaily.com /daily/1995/11/30/news/apnd.ap   (482 words)

  
 Senate Ethics Panel Votes To Investigate Durenberger - New York Times
Durenberger may have violated a Federal law, the Ethics in Government Act, in the way he administered a blind trust that included the partnership he formed to maintain his condominium.
Durenberger, whose term expires in 1994, has defended his use of the condominium, saying that he could legally accept reimbursements for using it because it was not his permanent home and that he used it like a hotel, for brief overnight stays.
Durenberger repaid the Senate $11,005 after the Rules Committee decided he was not entitled to receive reimbursements for expenses incurred at the condominium during official Congressional recesses.
query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE4DA143DF933A25756C0A966958260   (704 words)

  
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It also alleges Mahoney communicated with Durenberger in violation of the terms of a blind trust and assisted Durenberger in improperly claiming reimbursement from the Senate for rent on the condo.
In January, the court indefinitely suspended Durenberger's license to practice law after the lawyers' watchdog group filed a petition alleging improper activities in connection with the condo deal and the blind trust set up to hold Durenberger's assets, including his interest in the condominium.
Among the allegations in the petition is that Mahoney drafted a condominium lease Durenberger signed in early 1985 that falsely stated it was signed on July 28, 1983.
www.mndaily.com /daily/gopher-archives/1991/05/08/PETIT~W-.TXT   (462 words)

  
 Battlegrounders on National Review Online   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Republicans Dave Durenberger and Rudy Boschwitz were elected to the Senate from Minnesota in 1978, the year of the "Minnesota massacre" of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor party.
Durenberger, on the other hand, established himself as a quirky maverick who loved making himself a thorn in the side of the Reagan administration.
Durenberger stood down for reelection at the conclusion of his third term in 1995.
www.nationalreview.com /battleground/2004/battleground200410301852.asp   (1224 words)

  
 Inside Minnesota Politics: Sen. Dave Durenberger Pt 2
Although he says he will never be a Democrat, Durenberger says Democrats are "better equipped to carry the day" when it comes to health care.
Durenberger says Republicans are right that people make better choices than government does.
In it, Durenberger takes issue with the Republican "voucher" solution to education.
insideminnesotapolitics.blogspot.com /2005/07/sen-dave-durenberger-pt-2.html   (410 words)

  
 MPR: Health care task force issues broad suggestions
Dave Durenberger's health care task force has released some broad outlines of what should be done to contain health care costs.
Pawlenty's health care task force, chaired by former Sen. Dave Durenberger, Friday released part of its proposal for improving health care costs in the state.
Durenberger believes there's greater pressure to change because health care premiums have increased at double-digit rates for the last few years.
news.minnesota.publicradio.org /features/2004/02/06_scheckt_healthcare   (826 words)

  
 Counsel_Urges_Senate_Denunciation_of_Durenberger
In response, [James Hamilton] said the books were "legitimate" and praised by many of Durenberger's colleagues, and he argued that the arrangement, which he said had been cleared with the Federal Election Commission, broke no rules.
On the condominium deal, Bennett contended that Durenberger improperly sought and received Senate reimbursement of $40,055 for living expenses outside of Washington from 1983 to 1989 by attempting to obscure ownership of a condominium that he owned in Minneapolis.
Bennett also said Durenberger backdated a partnership agreement that included the condo in order to justify part of the reimbursement and appeared to arrange trips to Minnesota to assure enough days at the condo to cover expenses of maintaining it.
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 Power Line: A word from Rudy Boschwitz
Repubublicans Dave Durenberger and Rudy Boschwitz were elected to the Senate from Minnesota in 1978, the year of the "Minnesota massacre" of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party.
Durenberger, on the other hand, established himself as a quirky maverick who loved making himself a thorn in the side of the Reagan administration.
Durenberger stood down for reelection at the conclusion of his third term in 1995.
www.powerlineblog.com /archives/008385.php   (1624 words)

  
 Friends of the Parks and Trails of St. Paul and Ramsey County, Minnesota, MN 501(c)(3)
Tom was crucial in getting the river designated a national park.
He worked with Representative Bruce Vento and Senator Dave Durenberger when Congress created the Mississippi National River and Recreation Area in 1988--72 miles of riverway from Hastings to Dayton.
This designation, along with Minnesota's Critical Area program, help protect the Mississippi River corridor.
www.friendsoftheparks.org   (465 words)

  
 Power Line: That's edu-tainment
Former Minnesota Senator Dave Durenberger has a perch at the National Institute of Health Policy sponsored by the University of St. Thomas.
Coulter’s speech [ignorance has never stopped Durenberger from spouting off before], apparently the stir was not only over what she said, but how she said it.
Durenberger appears not to have caught up with the damage his friends in Congress have done in the name of campaign finance reform.
www.powerlineblog.com /archives/010408.php   (748 words)

  
 City Pages - &ldquo;They <i>talk</i> about freedom and values, but they really <i>don't ...   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Durenberger, a Republican, had fought to convince many in his own party that the legislation was needed.
Dave Durenberger: I think about it periodically when somebody calls me up and says, "Would you endorse my candidacy for office?" As far as endorsing a candidate is concerned, I'm increasingly not sure that I want to do that.
Durenberger: It's the tolerance for, the thriving in, and the respect for diversity.
www.citypages.com /databank/26/1266/article13039.asp   (3592 words)

  
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Dave Martin at the Idaho State PA program in Pocatello had an interesting solution when no cadaver was available for students to practice chest tube insertions.
Dave took the whole deer to his home in back of his Jeep, emptied the deer into his driveway, cut it in half and gutted it.
Dave did all this in the dark of night as he did not want to arouse his neighbors’ curiosity.
physician-assistant.advanceweb.com /common/editorial/editorial.aspx?CC=42374   (3028 words)

  
 Amit Spy Case: Israeli Disclosure Raises Question on U.S. Spying
Dave Durenberger (R -Minn.) was publicly criticized in 1987 by then-Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger for having suggested at a Florida fund-raising event that U.S. authorities had "changed the rules of the game" by spying on Israel, one of the United States' closest allies.
Durenberger had raised the issue because the Reagan Administration was condemning espionage performed for Israel by Jonathan Jay Pollard, a U.S. Naval intelligence analyst who was caught spying in this country.
Durenberger, shortly after stepping down in 1987 as chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, told Jewish groups at a private fund-raising party in Palm Beach, Fla., that then-CIA Director William J. Casey had "changed the rules of the game" by employing an Israeli military spy after that country's 1982 invasion of Lebanon.
www.jonathanpollard.org /1993/060593.htm   (721 words)

  
 The Tech - DeConcini and Durengerver Announce Senate Retirements
Durenberger, facing criminal charges that he defrauded the government, and DeConcini, bearing multiple wounds including an ethics committee rebuke for his involvement with savings and loan executive Charles H. Keating Jr., were their parties' most threatened incumbents.
Durenberger had been planning to announce his decision this weekend at a state GOP convention.
Durenberger, 59, was denounced by the Senate in 1990 for ethical misconduct in connection with a book promotion deal and reimbursements he took from the Senate for staying in a Minneapolis condominium that he owned.
www-tech.mit.edu /V113/N42/deconcini.42w.txt.html   (798 words)

  
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Dave Durenberger, a moderate Republican who's devoted his career to health policy since leaving the senate, wrote in Wednesday's Star Tribune that Kerry has the better health care plan.
In his editorial, Durenberger wrote, "The Kerry plan appears designed to be responsive to those most in need, people forced out of health care coverage by premium cost increases, without being disruptive."
Durenberger served 16 years in the senate, leaving in 1995 after an ethics scandal.
www.kare11.com /news/news_article.aspx?storyid=70951   (295 words)

  
 Minnesota Medical Association   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The group, headed by former U.S. Sen. Dave Durenberger, includes state officials and leaders from the community and the health care field.
Durenberger said in a news release that he was sorry about the scheduling error.
Dave Renner, MMA director of state and federal legislation, said that the forum's first meeting will probably outline the process for developing their proposals.
www.mmaonline.net /News/fullstory.cfm?recNum=2857   (417 words)

  
 The Harvard Crimson :: Opinion :: Spy v. Spy: America and Israel
Senator Dave Durenberger, the Minnesota Republican, has distinguished himself of late by his willingness to speak the truth--and to do so loudly and often--about the Jonathon Jay Pollard spy case and what he believes to be America's provocation of the affair.
Durenberger, who recently finished up a two-year term as chariman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, drew the attention of the Ethics Committee for disclosing that the United States spied on Israel.
DURENBERGER SAYS that in 1982 he found out about America's spying against Israel and asked William Casey, then the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, to put an end to it, Casey, Durenberger says, refused to do anything.
www.thecrimson.com /article.aspx?ref=146098   (708 words)

  
 City Pages - &ldquo;They <i>talk</i> about freedom and values, but they really <i>don't ...
Durenberger, a Republican, had fought to convince many in his own party that the legislation was needed.
Dave Durenberger: I think about it periodically when somebody calls me up and says, "Would you endorse my candidacy for office?" As far as endorsing a candidate is concerned, I'm increasingly not sure that I want to do that.
Durenberger: It's the tolerance for, the thriving in, and the respect for diversity.
citypages.com /databank/26/1266/article13039.asp   (3592 words)

  
 MPR: Durenberger forum likely to advocate health care for all
Former U.S. Sen. Dave Durenberger, who chairs a health care reform task force, said the group shares a belief that the ultimate goal is to have health insurance for everybody.
That's the conclusion of a state forum being led by former U.S. Sen. David Durenberger.
But Durenberger said he believes the panelists already share a belief that the ultimate goal is to have health insurance for everybody.
news.minnesota.publicradio.org /features/2004/01/12_ap_healthforum   (656 words)

  
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Dave Durenberger tried to tell me that it's been so cold that the walleyes jumped on the hooks just to get out of the water.
Dave, I was going to say something about you being a Paul Bunyan yourself, and then that connotation of maybe tall tales and everything, I don't want to take away anything from what you just previously said.
Prior to speaking at the rally, the President attended a Durenberger for Senate reception, which was also held at the dinner theater.
www.reagan.utexas.edu /archives/speeches/1982/20882d.htm   (2164 words)

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