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• "Why does Rick Berg say one thing and do another?" the ad's narrator asks. "Rick Berg voted to increase spending ... Rick Berg voted to let our debt grow."
• Arends said Sand's veteran status and opposition to raising the debt ceiling merited the PAC's support.
• "We've noticed that Rick Berg voted to raise the debt ceiling. Duane has committed to not vote for more debt," Arends said. "He's one of the few candidates who has."
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Wildlife group sues for bat-disease documents
MATT VOLZ,Associated Press

• HELENA, Mont. (AP) -- A wildlife advocacy group sued the U.S. Forest Service Wednesday for the release of documents on how the agency plans to keep a dis

ease that has already killed millions of bats in the U.S. and Canada from spreading to the Northern Rocky Mountains.
• The Center For Biological Diversity wants an explanation of why the federal agency has taken no action to keep white-nose syndrome out of the Forest Service's northern region, which includes Montana, Idaho and parts of Washington, North Dakota and South Dakota.
• The center says the fungal disease has killed 7 million bats so far, with the eastern U.S. particularly hard-hit, and it can

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