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| Date: | 1986 |
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| Description: | At a press conference Congressman David R. Obey of Wisconsin announces the Save the Family Farm Act introduced with 27 other farm state legislators. Among ... |
| Date: | 03 1985 |
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| Description: | Arms control talks between visiting Soviets and American legislators. Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey sat in on the talks with Congressman Tom Downey, ... |
| Date: | 06 1987 |
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| Description: | Congressman David Obey of Wisconsin biking with the Wausau Wheelers. |
| Date: | 1987 |
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| Description: | Dick Gephardt testing the support for his presidential candidacy at the Wisconsin Democratic convention. With him is Congressman David R. Obey of Wisconsin... |
| Date: | 1980 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey (center) studying briefing materials for a diplomatic visit to Pakistan. |
| Date: | 06 1987 |
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| Description: | Governor Bill Clinton looking for support for his presidential ambitions at the 1987 Wisconsin Democratic convention. With him is Congressman David R. Obey... |
| Date: | 1985 |
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| Description: | Congressman David R. Obey of Wisconsin leans across the table (left) during a discussion with Shimon Perez in Israel. Congressman Thomas Petri, also from ... |
| Date: | 1980 |
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| Description: | Congressman David R. Obey of Wisconsin checking on House floor activity on television. A table set with place settings appears behind him. |
| Date: | 1986 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey (center), playing the harmonica with Speaker of the House Jim Wright (right), and Congressman Jake Pickle (left). |
| Date: | 1980 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Congressman David Obey (center, facing the camera) and other members of the congressional delegation and staff that visited Saudi Arabia and Indi... |
| Date: | 1988 |
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| Description: | Congressmen Les Aspin and David R. Obey of Wisconsin at the J.I. Case plant. The group is standing near a line of farm equipment manufactured by the compan... |
| Date: | 1988 |
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| Description: | Congressman David Obey and his wife Joan on Martin Hanson's pontoon. He was a good friend of the Obeys and was inducted into the Wisconsin Conservation Hal... |
| Date: | 03 03 1980 |
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| Description: | Congressman David R. Obey of Wisconsin riding on the underground train that connects the Capitol with the legislative office buildings. A man in work cloth... |
| Date: | 1988 |
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| Description: | Congressman David R. Obey of Wisconsin crouches just outside of his car, reviewing the information in his briefing book during a congressional trip to Hond... |
| Date: | 1983 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey (chin in hand) ponders a remark during a meeting of House of Representative leaders with their Soviet equivalents in Mo... |
| Date: | 1988 |
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| Description: | Congressman David R. Obey and Les Aspin at the J.I. Case Company plant. |
| Date: | 03 23 1983 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey (right) speaking on behalf of Wisconsin dairy interests to the Dairy Subcommittee of the House Agriculture Committee al... |
| Date: | 05 30 1981 |
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| Description: | U.S. Congressman, Steve Gunderson, milking a cow at an AG Co-Op, the Theron Paulson farm. |
| Date: | 09 19 1985 |
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| Description: | Bryce Luchterhand, a Unity, Wisconsin, farmer, with Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey, chairman of the Joint Economic Committee at a committee hearing. O... |
| Date: | 1980 |
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| Description: | Congressman David R. Obey of Wisconsin (center) and his staff. The conference table is covered with papers and pencils. Framed maps are on the walls. |
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