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Berg, Heitkamp say VP pick puts focus on budget
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North Dakota's U.S. Senate candidates

agree that Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan will

put more focus on budget issues in their campaign.

Democrat Heidi Heitkamp says she's already been talking about

Republican Rick Berg's support for a budget plan that Ryan has been

pushing in the U.S. House.

Heitkamp believes the Ryan budget would hurt Medicare and the

federal farm program.

Berg says Ryan is committed to slowing federal spending growth

and trying to get the nation's debt under control.

He says Heitkamp and President Barack Obama favor continued

spending and raising taxes to help pay for it. Berg says he opposes

tax increases.