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Senators: Address Russia's ban on U.S. beef, poultry, turkey
Washington, D.C. - Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), Chairwoman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, and Senator Thad Cochran (R-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee, recently urged U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk to...Tags: Science and Technology, Food and Drug Administration, Turkey (animal), U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, Russia
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State changes Democratic chair, keeps GOP leader
DETROIT (AP) — Eager for the 2014 election, Michigan Democrats dumped their long-time party leader Saturday in favor of a challenger who said Republicans' complete control in Lansing must no longer stand. Lon Johnson won when incumbent Mark...
Tags: U.S. Senate, Parties and Movements, Executive Branch, Crime, Law and Justice, Politics
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Rep. Benishek: Hopeful for deal to avoid sequestration funding cuts but skeptical
Staff WriterPETOSKEY, Mich. — Congress is gearing up for another down-to-the-wire budget crisis this week with mandatory $1.2 trillion cuts to governmental spending set to take effect March 1. But, despite being discouraged, second-term Congressman Dan...Tags: Media Industry, Dan Benishek, Washington, DC, Carl Levin, Budgets and Budgeting
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D.C. is an issue in Oscar campaigns
Hollywood director David O. Russell took a meeting this week to talk about a movie. But the man in the room with him wasn't a studio executive or an actor hoping for a role — he was Vice President Joe Biden. Russell met Biden and spoke on the...Tags: Golden Globe Awards, Harry Reid, David O. Russell, Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., Zero Dark Thirty (movie)
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For David O. Russell, an entry in his own 'Silver Linings Playbook'
The last time David O. Russell went to the White House, to screen “Three Kings” for Bill Clinton in 1999, he brought his 5-year-old son Matthew. Russell didn’t fully know it then, but a world of struggle loomed for the boy, who grappled...
Tags: Bipolar Disorder, David O. Russell, Behavioral Conditions, Bradley Cooper, U.S. Senate
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Senators introduce extension of ag disaster assistance programs
Washington, D.C. - Senators Max Baucus (D-Mont.), Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) and Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) introduced legislation recently to extend agriculture disaster assistance programs that expired at the end of the 2011 Fiscal Year and were not part of the...Tags: Food and Drug Administration, U.S. Senate, U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, Droughts, Roy Blunt
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A future Farm Bill must include cattlemen's priorities
We can't deny that 2013 has gotten off to a rocky start, legislatively speaking. The fiscal cliff package passed by Congress earlier this month left much to be desired for the cattle industry, especially when it came to a five-year farm bill. The fiscal...Tags: Environmental Issues, Politics, Science and Technology, Natural Resource Industry, Research
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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: Harry Reid, Lisa Murkowski, Susan Collins, Benjamin L. Cardin, Bob Corker
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‘Meet the Press’ exclusive: Barack Obama is the guest
The TV Guy - Orlando SentinelABC's "This Week" inteviews Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., and Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz. The program starts at 11 a.m. on WFTV-Channel 9. Other guests are Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., and Rep. Raul Labrador, R-Idaho. ABC's Jonathan Karl will lead a roundtable... -
Farm bill extension evidence of lost clout
WASHINGTON (AP) - A patchwork extension of federal farm programs passed as part of a larger ''fiscal cliff'' bill keeps the price of milk from rising but doesn't include many of the goodies that farm-state lawmakers are used to getting for their rural...Tags: Politics, New Year's Day, U.S. Senate, Fiscal Cliff, Farms
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Deal will prevent spike in milk prices
WASHINGTON (AP) - A potential doubling of milk prices will be averted as part of the compromise that White House and congressional bargainers reached on wide-ranging legislation to avert the ''fiscal cliff,'' a leading senator said late on Dec. 31....Tags: U.S. Senate, Fiscal Cliff, Mitch McConnell, Washington, DC, Politics
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Hoekstra fends off critics at Senate candidacy debate
![<span class="s1">Frontrunner Pete Hoekstra faced a battery of criticisms on his record during a Republican Senate debate Saturday in Petoskey.</span>](http://media.trb.com/media/thumbnails/story/2012-02/340366100-20094404.jpg "<span class="s1\">Frontrunner Pete Hoekstra faced a battery of criticisms on his record during a Republican Senate debate Saturday in Petoskey.</span>")
Frontrunner Pete Hoekstra faced a battery of criticisms on his record during a Republican Senate debate Saturday in Petoskey.
The Petoskey Tea Party-WMKT debate, at Landmark Baptist Church, featured six of the seven GOP candidates fighting for the...Tags: Environmental Issues, Trials, Environmental Politics, U.S. Senate, Facebook
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