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Published 12/18/2008 at Yahoo! News: Politics News
AP - Ray LaHood has said he wanted to write his memoirs now that he is retiring from the U.S. House of Representatives after 14 years. But it looks like the Peoria legislator will have to add at least another chapter, which he could title: "My Days as a Republican inside a Democratic White House."
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