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	Phil Crane : About Phil Crane for congress
		Phil Crane is currently the congressman of the 8th district of Illinois.
		Phil Crane stands for the ultra-conservative wing of the GOP while the people of the 8th district pursue progress, reason and what is best for the future of our nation.
		Phil Crane for $33 billion in tax breaks over ten years to promote oil and gas exploration and advance coal and nuclear energy, including authority to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
	www.craneforcongress.org (332 words)

	Crane Rehabilitation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Phil Crane's (R-Ill.) decision this week to enroll in an alcohol rehabilitation program is being hailed by Members as an act of personal bravery in a town filled with politicians who downplay their personal flaws.
		But Crane's public announcement of his battle with alcoholism also has political overtones,with some GOP lawmakers and aides suggesting that Crane may have removed one of the biggest impediments he faces in his quest to become the next chairman of the powerful Ways and Means Committee.
		Crane did form a leadership PAC last year, and held a recent fundraiser with the Speaker that some Crane aides were labeling at the time as a tacit endorsement of his claim to the Ways and Means chairmanship, although Hastert's staff strongly denied that assertion.
	www.morerevealed.com /crane.jsp (1043 words)

	Phil Crane - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Phil Crane, right, meets with President George W. Bush and Bill Thomas, chairman of the Ways and Means Committee.
		In 1978, shortly before the general election, Crane announced that he would be a candidate for the Republican nomination for president.
		Crane did have some influence as a member of the House Ways and Means Committee, which handles tax issues.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Phil_Crane (964 words)

	Crane's frequent flying is disclosed : The Morning Call Online
		Long criticized by Democrats, Crane's travels were in the spotlight this week after the public radio program Marketplace and Northwestern University journalism students combed four years of congressional disclosure records and aired the results in a two-part series.
		This election, Crane is facing perhaps the toughest challenge of his 35-year career, with Democratic opponent Melissa Bean regularly saying he is a lobbyist-dependent Washington insider disconnected from his northwest suburban district.
		Crane, 73, has pointed out that he hasn't taken any sponsored trips this year and defended his travels as a necessary part of his work as chairman of the House Ways and Means trade subcommittee.
	www.mcall.com /news/elections/chi-0409290289sep29,0,642815,print.story (706 words)

	NewsMax.com: Commentmax Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Crane has long been a social drinker, but since the death of an adult daughter a couple of years ago, his drinking has become more of a problem.
		Crane will have the courage to initiate a move toward Social Security becoming a real insurance plan for retirement years, as opposed to the pyramid scheme the government has been operating all these years.
		Crane has never met a tax increase he liked, so no big time tax and spending plans would emerge from that committee if he were the chairman.
	www.newsmax.com /commentmax/get.pl?a=2000/3/27/203718 (828 words)

	CNN.com - Bean unseating GOP's Crane in Illinois - Nov 3, 2004
		Crane is the vice chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, is Chairman of the Subcommittee on Trade and is a member of the Subcommittee on Health.
		Bean's major criticism of Crane was that he had grown complacent and had failed to change with the times and stand up for the district.
		Crane fought back, calling his opponent out about not living in the district, claiming Bean would raise taxes if elected and saying she flip-flopped in support of the Bush tax plan.
	us.cnn.com /2004/ALLPOLITICS/11/03/house.illinois8 (381 words)

	Please say 'no' to my bill: Crane=The Hill.com= (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Phil Crane (Ill.), the second-ranking Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee, planned to send a letter today to fellow Republicans asking them not to support an attempt by Democrats to force a vote on his own tax bill.
		In a letter to every GOP lawmaker who co-sponsored his bill, Crane was expected to say that he opposed efforts by Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) and other Democrats to force a vote on the measure through a discharge petition because it would circumvent normal House procedures.
		Phil Crane (R-Ill.), left, sent a letter to fellow House Republicans asking them not to sign a discharge petition on Crane-Rangel-Manzullo, which has enjoyed widespread bipartisan support.
	www.thehill.com /news/030204/crane.aspx (720 words)

	Recovery, Inc: In Memoriam of Philip Magan Crane
		Phil had been ill off and on for the past six years, but that does not diminish the shock of his passing.
		Phil met Dr. Low when he was a patient at the Psychiatric Institute of the University of Illinois Medical School.
		Phil was one of those who took the Recovery Method to patients on the wards of the Psychiatric Institute.
	www.recovery-inc.com /members/crane_memoriam.html (394 words)

	Q13.com \| KCPQ TV \| Q13 FOX News \| GOP fears party woes may be getting to Crane
		That's a message that Crane's Democratic opponent, Barrington high-tech consultant Melissa Bean, has worked hard to spread throughout the northwest suburban 8th District in her quest to pull off an upset win against the second-longest-serving member of the U.S. House.
		Mainly, though, she turns conversations back to Crane, the length of his time in office, what she calls his lackluster legislative record and the fact that in the last four years, he has taken $109,000 in lobbyist and special-interest sponsored trips--the most of any member of the Illinois delegation.
		Despite Crane's considerable advantages, Republicans remain worried that an upset is within reach, in part because their party has been rocked by scandals in recent years and embarrassing missteps in its struggle to field a candidate in the 2004 U.S. Senate campaign.
	q13.trb.com /news/chi-0410100328oct10,0,2160891.story (1031 words)

	Stephen Moore on NRO
		Phil Crane never saw a tax-rate cut he didn’t like.
		The liberal wing of the GOP that opposes Crane grouses that he lacks the political gravitas to run this committee effectively.
		Crane was a maestro in winning congressional support for NAFTA, GATT and China, free trade.
	www.nationalreview.com /balance/balance120600.shtml (425 words)

	Bean Poses Re-Election Dilemma for Crane - MSNBC Wire Services - MSNBC.com
		After 35 years in Congress, Crane, an ardent conservative from the northwestern suburbs of Chicago and the longest-serving Republican in the House, is facing an unexpectedly spirited challenge from Bean, a Democratic political novice who argues the congressman has become too comfortable in Washington.
		Crane was first elected to Congress in 1969 when a young Illinois congressman _ Donald Rumsfeld _ left to work for the Nixon administration.
		Crane made his name as an anti-tax crusader and ran for president in 1980.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/5962790 (794 words)

	The View from Ways and Means
		Phil was the Chairman and another colleague of his from Bradley University was the Treasurer.
		Phil entered that race because he was worried that Ronald Reagan would not run and that conservatives wouldn't have a candidate.
		Phil and I went to the meeting, and Phil basically said, "Governor, we have to have a conservative candidate for President.
	www.heritage.org /Research/Budget/HL686.cfm (4886 words)

	VANITY - Congressman Phil Crane's defeat.
		This saddens me greatly, as Crane was one of my first political heroes - as well as one of the true leaders of the New Right that took Washington by storm in the early 1980's.
		While it's true Crane has had some "interesting" moments in his career, it is also true that he was truly one of the trail blazers of the conservative movement: Always willing to stump for conservatives, unapologetic in his rightist views, Phil Crane will be missed - by me, at least.
		Phil Crane likely should have retired before he was booted out.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1268555/posts (1559 words)

	Phil Crane Looks Back and Bids Farewell by John Gizzi
		As the years went on and a younger generation of conservatives came to Washington, Crane was increasingly looked on as their bridge to the early days of the modern conservative movement.
		Any political talk with Phil Crane inevitably turns to 1979-80 and why he chose to run for President, even though fellow conservative Ronald Reagan was expected to run and modern history had demonstrated that House members almost never make viable presidential candidates.
		Crane came in near the bottom in a 1980 New Hampshire primary won handsomely by Reagan.
	www.humanevents.com /article.php?id=6091 (1076 words)

	Crane ready for all challengers in 8th District: SouthFlorida.com
		Crane, 73, says he has no interest in retiring despite some health issues, including a single-bypass heart operation before the 2002 general election and a 30-day treatment for alcoholism in 2000.
		Proud of his support for NAFTA, implemented in 1994, Crane cites figures from the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity that show Illinois' exports to NAFTA countries have increased nearly 90 percent to $13 billion annually in the last decade.
		Crane also points to the more than $170 million he helped secure last year for his district for transportation, law enforcement, defense, education and environmental projects.
	www.southflorida.com /movies/chi-0403050322mar05,0,1575970.story (723 words)

	From Policymaking to Pushing Pepperoni - Mike Bates - MensNewsDaily.com™
		Illinois Congressman Phil Crane was campaigning by delivering pizzas and asking the customers to vote for him.
		I’ve always admired Phil Crane and hope that the pundits predicting his political demise are wrong.
		In 1976, Phil was one of the few Republicans in Congress with the intestinal fortitude to back Ronald Reagan over Jerry Ford for the party’s nomination.
	www.mensnewsdaily.com /archive/a-b/bates/2004/bates110204.htm (872 words)

	cbs2chicago.com - Melissa Bean Wins U.S. House Vote (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Bean thanked Crane for a hard-fought race, that she says raised a lot of important issues.
		Crane says representing the Eighth Congressional District in Chicago's northern suburbs for 35 years has been a pleasure.
		Crane apparently based his advertising charge on the fact that Bean criticized the trillion-dollar Bush tax cuts.
	cbs2chicago.com /politics/local_story_307152244.html (344 words)

	Chicago Business News, Analysis, & Articles\| GOP works to save Crane's seat \| Crain's
		Now Crane is fighting for his political life, challenged by a Democratic businesswoman who points to the Ways and Means snub as evidence that, after 35 years, it's time for Crane to go.
		"Phil has been there a long time, and he really hasn't had a lot of difficult races and he hasn't had a lot of time he's had to spend campaigning," said Cook County Republican Chairman Gary Skoien, who lost to Crane in the 1994 primary.
		The day Hastert and Crane appeared together at the fastener plant, a suburban newspaper printed an interview with Hastert in which he suggested a younger candidate would have been running a more spirited campaign.
	chicagobusiness.com /cgi-bin/news.pl?id=14310 (816 words)

	LCV Names Rep. Phil Crane to æDirty DozenÆ List
		CraneÆs record shows a blatant bias toward corporate polluters and special interests over Illinois families.
		In both 2003 and 2004, Rep. Crane voted for deeply flawed energy legislation that provides billions in tax giveaways to corporate polluters and special interests while threatening the health and safety of Illinois families and costing the stateÆs taxpayers more than $1.8 billion.
		Crane has also catered to his campaign contributors in the utility industry by voting to weaken the Clean Air Act, and has voted for legislation that could make it easier for oil companies to drill in Lake Michigan.
	www.lcv.org /newsroom/press-releases/lcv-names-rep-phil-crane-to-dirty-dozen-list.html (467 words)

	Cao’s Blog » Blog Archive » Phil Crane Says Goodbye
		I didn’t realize it, but Crane is in his 70’s, and his birthday was in the beginning of November.
		As an example, Crane recalled that, “Jimmy Carter kept his promise to the National Education Association and supported creation of the Department of Education [which the House voted for by four votes in 1979].
		Crane advises younger conservative to cherish the principles of the movement and keep fighting for them through thick and thin.
	caosblog.com /775 (864 words)

	U.S. House Candidate Phil Crane Declares Support for Freedom Agenda
		Washington, D.C. FreedomWorks today announced that Phil Crane, the Republican Representative serving in the Illinois 8th Congressional District, has completed the 2004 FreedomWorks/CSE Candidate Survey.
		He received a 95 percent for his voting record in the 107th Congress on the FreedomWorks Economic Scorecard and was awarded the prestigious Jefferson Award for his consistent support for limited government.
		"Phil Crane has joined the over 200 candidates for national office who have completed the FreedomWorks Candidate Survey this election cycle.
	www.freedomworks.org /newsroom/press_template.php?press_id=981 (424 words)

	Sabato's Crystal Ball - 2004 House (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		In Illinois's eighth district, where aging GOP Congressman Phil Crane faces a rematch against energetic consultant Melissa Bean, who took only 43 percent of the vote against the incumbent two years ago.
		They also say Crane's stay at an alcohol rehabilitation center several years ago doesn't help matters either, though the GOP says it's an old issue.
		Crane came back with Speaker Dennis Hastert when they appeared together at a campaign stop this week.
	www.centerforpolitics.org /crystalball/2004/house/?state=IL (436 words)

	Easter Massacre Vigil: Reps. Betty McCollum, Phil... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Reps. Betty McCollum (D- St. Paul, MN) and Phil Crane (R- IL) will be blasted and denounced today in Washington, D.C., by a coalition of protestors that includes taxpayers, students, veterans as well as Laotian and Hmong human rights and pro- democracy organizations.
		Demonstrators are opposed to tax and trade legislation recently re-introduced by Rep. Betty McCollum and Rep. Phil Crane in the U.S. House of Representatives on March 11th that seeks to grant the Lao communist regime a major tax cut on goods it imports into the United States.
		At the demonstrations today in Washington, D.C., both Representative Betty McCollum and Representative Phil Crane are being held responsible by Lao and Hmong-Americans for encouraging and helping to provide financial incentives, with U.S. taxpayers dollars', to fund these terrible attrocities directed against America's former military allies during the Vietnam War, the Hmong and Montagnard people.
	releases.usnewswire.com /GetRelease.asp?id=105-04242004 (648 words)

	Phil Crane in Trouble
		Phil Crane's chances for reelection in the 8th district in Illinois:
		...Republican officials are worried as never before that Crane, the longest serving GOP member of the House, could be ousted thanks to a combination of voter apathy and antipathy at both the congressman in particular and the scandal-scarred state GOP in general.
		"The real issue is that Phil has been in Congress since 1969, and unfortunately he's lost touch with the district.
	homepage.mac.com /akitzmil/iblog/C119883728/E754506971 (137 words)

	GOP Leaders Choose House Chairmen
		In tapping the 59-year-old Thomas, GOP leaders jumped over Rep. Phil Crane, who has greater seniority and hails from Illinois, the home state of Speaker Dennis Hastert.
		Crane issued a statement confessing his disappointment, and prodded Hastert and Thomas to ``remain committed to President-elect Bush's tax plan.''
		Officials said discussions continued on Crane's bid to retain chairmanship of a trade subcommittee, despite GOP rules requiring him to relinquish it after six years in the post.
	www.phillyburbs.com /election2000/news/737216.htm (925 words)

	Junket mail spoofs Crane trips: SouthFlorida.com
		"Phil Crane sends Greetings from Antigua!" reads one adorned with a picture of the 73-year-old congressman on a beach and wearing a flowered shirt, shorts and white sunscreen on his nose.
		"Phil Crane sends Greetings from Scotland!" reads another as a kilt-wearing Crane stands stiffly in front of a castle overlooking the Scottish shore.
		The mailers, which dub the 35-year veteran congressman "the junket king," are aimed at exploiting a criticism leveled at Crane for years--that he takes excessive advantage of vacations offered by lobbyists and other private-interest groups and has become too beholden to those interests.
	www.southflorida.com /movies/chi-0410270256oct27,0,7212084.story (532 words)

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