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NEW TERRY AD HIGHLIGHTS TWO TRILLION DOLLAR DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE CANDIDATES
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
U.S. Rep. Lee Terry’s new 30-second television ad features the congressman talking directly to voters about the fact that he voted against the failed stimulus program and government run healthcare law, initiatives that cost two trillion dollars, while his opponent supports them.
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Boehner visits for Rep. Terry
Published Saturday, September 4, 2010: By Robynn Tysver, OMAHA WORLD-HERALD
House Minority Leader John Boehner made an unheralded appearance at a fundraiser for Republican U.S. Rep. Lee Terry this week in Nebraska, prompting Terry’s Democratic opponent to question the “secret” nature of the visit.
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GOP Congressional candidate says a 'positive attitude' about jobs is needed
Published Wednesday, September 1, 2010: By Katie Knapp Schubert, KIOS
OMAHA, NE (kios) - The Republican candidate for the Second Congressional District says policies are hurting job creation in Nebraska and elsewhere.
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Second District candidates discuss health care
Published Monday, May 24, 2010: By Katie Knapp Schubert, KIOS
OMAHA, NE (kios) - A new report from the Congressional Budget Office says the health care overhaul law will cost $115 billion more than anticipated.
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Early election season TV ads pledge fiscal responsibility
Published Tuesday, August 31, 2010: By Don Walton, LINCOLN JOURNAL STAR
The air war has begun.
And the message is fiscal responsibility.
Both Republican Rep. Lee Terry and Democratic challenger Tom White have launched TV ad campaigns in advance of the traditional Labor Day kickoff of election season.
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TERRY ACCEPTS BELLEVUE CHAMBER DEBATE
Thursday, August 26, 2010
U.S. Rep. Lee Terry will debate his opponent on Tuesday, October 19 at Bellevue University.
The debate is sponsored by the Bellevue Chamber of Commerce. It will be held in the newly remodeled auditorium from 6:30—7:30 p.m.
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ECONOMIC INDICATORS WORSENING, TERRY SAYS
Trends show failure of opponent’s trillions in more spending and debt
Thursday, August 26, 2010
U.S. Rep. Lee Terry said today that a new report detailing a collapse in U.S. home sales is just more evidence that the administration’s economic policies are simply not working and that his opponent’s support of them is wrong for the district.
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TERRY CAMPAIGN LAUNCHES FIRST TV AD
Out of control federal spending and $13 trillion debt are at issue
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
The Terry for Congress campaign is broadcasting a thirty second television ad that focuses on the congressman’s opposition to last year’s stimulus bill and pork barrel spending contained in the budget.
U.S. Rep. Lee Terry, speaking directly to the voters, also takes direct aim at the $13 trillion national debt and calls it “an outrage.” The debt equals $42,000 a person according to the U.S. Debt Clock.
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WHITE ERRS ON ECONOMY AND HEALTHCARE, TERRY SAYS
Two new reports bring ‘devastating’ news to opponent’s flawed positions
Thursday, August 19, 2010
U.S. Rep. Lee Terry today said a U.S. Labor department report out this morning on new jobless claims shows the federal stimulus program, supported by his opponent Tom White, has been wholly ineffective in creating new jobs.
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NEBRASKA’S 2ND U.S. HOUSE DISTRICT --
Terry vs. White
Published Sunday, August 8, 2010: By John Gizzi, HUMAN EVENTS
After 12 years in the House—the longest stint for any U.S. Representative from Nebraska’s 2nd District (Omaha) in more than a half-century—conservative Republican Lee Terry is resigned to the fact he will always have to face a spirited Democratic challenge.
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TERRY RAISES $1.3 MILLION FOR 2010 RACE
Friday, July 16, 2010
U.S. Rep. Lee Terry’s campaign heads into the key 100-day sprint to November leading his opponent in all key indicators of fundraising support—total amount raised for the cycle, total raised for the most recent quarter and the important “cash on hand” amount.
Terry’s filing with the Federal Election Commission shows he has raised $1.3 million for the 2010 election cycle and heads into the 100-day sprint with $787,000 in cash on hand. This is a quarter of a million dollars more than his opponent and represents a new record for Terry, besting his June 30, 2008, cash total of $617,000.
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Terry, White rake in cash for race
Published Friday, July 16, 2010: By Joseph Morton, OMAHA WORLD-HERALD
WASHINGTON — The campaign fundraising battle continues in what should be Nebraska’s marquee race this fall.
Rep. Lee Terry, R-Neb., has socked away more in campaign funds than he ever has by this point in an election cycle — with $787,044 in the bank, according to Federal Election Commission reports filed this week. He’s raised $272,133 since April 22.
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Party Hopping
Published Wednesday, July 14, 2010: By Hilary Stohs-Krause, THE READER
Richard Carter went from Iraq and Afghanistan veteran and underdog Democratic candidate who opposed the war and Rep. Lee Terry in both rhetoric and action, to working for the 2nd District Republican in about a year and a half.
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Lee Terry says issue is spending
Published Saturday, July 10, 2010: By Don Walton, LINCOLN JOURNAL STAR
OMAHA - Lee Terry is relaxed and on message, abandoning his coffee occasionally to chat with constituents who spot him at Westwood Plaza.
"This election is about spending, spending, the economy and jobs," Omaha's six-term Republican congressman says.
"People are worried about the spending, the rising national debt, our reliance on China."
Runaway federal expenditures and ballooning budget deficits stifle job creation, Terry says, and endanger America's future.
"Spending, especially during the last two years, is just out of control," he says.
"That's the issue.
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DEMOCRAT 'TRACKING' GOES TOO FAR, TERRY SAYS
Monday, July 5, 2010
Operatives working for the Tom White campaign and other Democrat-backed groups who shadow U.S. Rep. Lee Terry at public events are stalking the congressman's wife and scaring their young children with intrusive, in-your-face video taping, Terry's campaign charged today.
Terry said the paid staffers, called "trackers," should immediately cease their over-the-top tactics.
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Terry urges White to say how he’d have voted
Published Saturday, July 3, 2010: By Robynn Tysver, OMAHA WORLD-HERALD
Republican U.S. Rep. Lee Terry issued a broadside Friday against his Democratic opponent, Tom White, for failing to take a “yes” or “no” position on a bill to extend federal unemployment benefits.
Terry said voters have a right to know White’s stance on the bill, which Terry voted against, saying it would add $34 billion to the nation’s “spiraling budget deficit.”
White refused to take a position, saying he would have found a way to both provide the benefits and the money needed to cover the costs.
“The people of the Second District are entitled to a representative who gives them straight talk, not double talk,” said Terry.
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TERRY PROTECTS TAXPAYERS FROM $34 BILLION DEFICIT JUMP
July 2, 2010
U.S. Rep. Lee Terry today said he sided with the nation’s taxpayers in opposing a bill Thursday that adds $34 billion to the federal debt.
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TERRY PROTECTS TAXPAYERS FROM $54 BILLION DEBT HIKE
June 1, 2010
U.S. Rep. Lee Terry sided with the nation's taxpayers last Friday in speaking against a bill on the House floor that adds $54 billion to the federal debt over the next decade.
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TERRY PROTECTS TAXPAYERS FROM $134 BILLION DEFICIT JUMP
May 24, 2010
U.S. Rep. Lee Terry today said he is siding with the nation’s taxpayers in opposing a bill this week in the House that adds $134 billion to the federal budget deficit over the next decade.
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TERRY ACCEPTS DEBATE INVITATION
May 21, 2010
U.S. Rep. Lee Terry will debate his opponent, liberal State Sen. Tom White, at a forum sponsored by the League of Women Voters and Omaha Press Club this October, his campaign announced today.
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HEALTHCARE LAW COST JUMPS $115 BILLION
May 19, 2010
U.S. Rep. Lee Terry today called on his opponent, State Sen. Tom White, to specify how he would pay for $115 billion in newly disclosed costs of the federal healthcare law.
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TERRY RACE UPGRADED
May 17, 2010
CQ moves NE2 from ‘Lean’ Republican to ‘Likely’ Republican
Congressional Quarterly, a widely respected organization that follows developments in Congress and political races, has upgraded U.S. Rep. Lee Terry’s chances of winning re-election this November.
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SAKALOSKY ENDORSES TERRY
May 12, 2010
Matt Sakalosky, a conservative Republican who captured 36 percent of the vote in Tuesday’s Republican congressional primary, today closed ranks with his former opponent and enthusiastically endorsed U.S. Rep. Lee Terry for re-election in this fall’s contest.
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TERRY RAISES $1 MILLION FOR 2010 RACE
April 15, 2010
The Terry for Congress Committee announced today they have raised over $1 million in the current election cycle and enter the May primary with $633,488 in the bank.>
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Terry-White health care battle ahead
By DON WALTON / Lincoln Journal Star | Posted: Monday, March 22, 2010
Omaha's congressional district will be a health care reform battleground this election year.
But Republican Rep. Lee Terry said Monday he's not ready to frame his contest with Democratic challenger Tom White as a referendum on the health care plan enacted by the House Sunday evening.
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TRILLION DOLLAR TRAGEDY
March 19, 2010: OMAHA
Liberals in Congress continue to ram their government takeover of health care through Congress. I've talked to moms, seniors and business owners from different parts of Omaha and they all say this is a bad bill. They are right! The liberals in Washington are trying to convince the American people that this bill will cost $940 billion over ten years.
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Congressman Terry Holds Campaign Kickoff
February 21, 2010: OMAHA (KPTM)
With last year being a difficult one in Washington D.C. Congressman Lee Terry hopes to help secure America's future with another term.
The republican held a 2010 campaign kickoff Sunday afternoon at the Police Union Hall...
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Terry says stimulus didn't work
Published Thursday February 18, 2010: By Robynn Tysver, WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER
Republican Rep. Lee Terry joined colleagues across the nation Wednesday in criticizing the year-old economic stimulus bill, saying it created few jobs.
Terry said the $787 billion stimulus package — pushed by President Barack Obama to bolster the nation’s struggling economy — was a "government growth bill" that provided little help to Nebraska businesses.Across the nation, Republicans and Democrats were holding dueling press conferences and releasing dueling press releases debating the merits of the stimulus bill...
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Congressmen to seek re-election
Published Wednesday February 17, 2010: By Robynn Tysver, WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER
All three of the state's congressmen — Reps. Lee Terry, Adrian Smith and Jeff Fortenberry — have filed for re-election.
In addition, four of the state's five constitutional officers have filed for re-election: Gov. Dave Heineman, Attorney General Jon Bruning, State Auditor Mike Foley and Secretary of State John Gale.
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28 House Seats Move towards GOP
Rothenberg Political Report January 25, 2010
After a stunning GOP Senate win in Massachusetts and a slew of new polls showing many Democratic incumbents in trouble, it’s hard to argue with the obvious: the Republicans unquestionably have momentum as 2010 begins.
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Terry leads White in fundraising
Published Wednesday January 28, 2010: By Robynn Tysver, WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER
Republican Rep. Lee Terry appears to have a tailwind at his back as he enters 2010, especially after raising a solid $281,000 in the final months of last year.
Democrat Tom White raised $176,000 in the fourth quarter of last year, according to campaign finance reports released Wednesday by the candidates.
Terry, the six-term incumbent, and White, a state senator, are battling for the Omaha-based 2nd Congressional District seat.
The election is set for Nov. 2.
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Terry says he's in sync with voters
By DON WALTON / Lincoln Journal Star | Posted: Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Advantage, Lee Terry.
That's what the Omaha congressman believes.
Terry says his views are in sync with voters in his battleground district.
"Big government is going to be a big issue," Terry says, and that will fit into his voting record opposing federal growth.
erry says he's in sync with voters