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U.S. Senate panel approves farm bill that expands crop insurance
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate Agriculture Committee approved a farm bill on Tuesday, costing $500 billion over a decade, that would expand the scope of the federally subsidized crop insurance program and modestly trim spending on food stamps for the...Tags: Politics, U.S. Senate, Debbie Stabenow, Insurance, Elections
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Food stamps, not crop subsidies, highest hurdle for US farm bill
Reuters* House, Senate panels plan to draft farm bill next week * Split on food stamps widens from last year * Food stamps make up largest part of farm bill spending By Charles Abbott WASHINGTON, May 9 (Reuters) - Lawmakers are preparing for a second run...Tags: Marlin Stutzman, Politics, Environmental Issues, James P. McGovern, Debbie Stabenow
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Senator Says God won't Save Us from Climate Change Doom
Michael McAuliff writes for the Huffington Post about Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse's rebuttal to those who contend God would never allow mankind to destroy the planet: Although Whitehouse did not name names, some of his Senate colleagues could be counted as...
Tags: John Shimkus, Sheldon Whitehouse, Environmental Issues, Weather, Conservation
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Housing programs critical to Aberdeen
Access to rural housing programs that benefit a significant number of homebuyers in Aberdeen could be extended under a bill introduced Thursday by Sen. Tim Johnson, D-S.D., and others. Without an extension of some sort, the city would lose access to two...Tags: U.S. Department of Agriculture, U.S. Congress, Personal Income, Tim Johnson, Mike Johanns
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Rubio has dinner at the White House
Central Florida Political Pulse - Orlando SentinelBy William E. Gibson, Washington Bureau WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, one of President Obama’s most persistent critics, joined him for dinner at the White House on Wednesday night to talk immigration, the budget and a wide range of other... -
Medal of Honor goes to Korean War chaplain
WASHINGTON — When men who served in the Korean War with Emil Kapaun describe him, they do not talk about the acts most commonly associated with the Medal of Honor: He fell on no grenades, captured no enemy machine guns, killed no enemy soldiers....
Tags: Politics, Korean War (1950-1953), U.S. Military, U.S. Department of Defense, Prisoners and Detainees
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Obama and GOP senators discuss issues over dinner
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama hosted Republican senators at the White House Wednesday evening, with dinner conversation including the deficit, gun control and immigration. A White House official characterized their discussion over steak...
Tags: Politics, U.S. Senate, Gun Control, Lamar Alexander, Interior Policy
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Rubio dines with political adversary Obama
U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, one of President Obama’s most persistent critics, joined him for dinner at the White House on Wednesday night to talk immigration, the budget and a wide range of other topics. Not big breakthroughs emerged from the...
Tags: Politics, U.S. Senate, Immigration, Gun Control, Lamar Alexander
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Obama courts GOP senators, Part II
WASHINGTON – President Obama is proving to be a popular dinner host. Republican senators who dined Wednesday at the White House, the second time Obama has extended an invitation to his sometime adversaries, offered mostly positive reviews,...
Tags: Politics, Budgets and Budgeting, U.S. Senate, Elections, Mitch McConnell
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Farm groups offer conflicting views on commodity title
Oklahoma wheat grower Scott Neufeld has long benefited from the certainty and planting flexibility provided by the direct payments that were first offered in the 1996 “Freedom to Farm” bill. But as Congress moved to discontinue those payments last year,...Tags: Politics, Arable Farming, U.S. Congress, U.S. House Committee on Agriculture, Marketing
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Turning the tables on Jack Lew
WASHINGTON -- President Obama won re-election in part by beating up on his opponent for receiving big corporate payouts in exchange for dubious work and for socking away money in tax havens such as the Cayman Islands. So it's a bit, well, rich that...
Tags: Politics, U.S. Senate, Mitt Romney, Max Baucus, Elections
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The challenging math of passing immigration reform
WASHINGTON – Senators from both parties are expressing enthusiasm for pushing a comprehensive overhaul of the nation’s immigration system. But while immigration politics appears to have changed in the wake of sweeping Republican rejection...
Tags: Benjamin L. Cardin, Carl Levin, Amy Klobuchar, Ron Wyden, Bob Menendez
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Jan 28, 2013
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