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New tankers to be assigned to McConnell Air Force Base
KWCH 12 Eyewitness NewsThe Pentagon chose McConnell Air Force Base to serve as home to the Air Force's new refueling tankers. The Air Force selected McConnell as the Main Operating Base #1 for replacing KC-135R tanker aircraft with KC-46A’s beginning in 2016. The Air...Tags: West Point, Jerry Moran, Military Equipment, Mike Pompeo, U.S. Department of Defense
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Senate votes to make small cut to food stamps in farm bill
Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate voted Tuesday to keep a $400 million annual cut — or roughly a half of 1 percent — to the food stamp program as part of a major five-year farm bill. Food stamps now cost almost $80 billion annually and are...Tags: White House, Insurance, Republican Party, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, U.S. Senate
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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: James P. McGovern, Republican Party, Environmental Issues, Marlin Stutzman, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
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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: Sheldon Whitehouse, Bible, Environmental Issues, Ecosystems, 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: Jerry Moran, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Personal Income, Economy, Business and Finance, Finance
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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: Theft, Heroism, U.S. Army, U.S. Military, Prisons
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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: White House, Republican Party, U.S. Senate, Mike Enzi, Gun Control
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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: White House, Republican Party, U.S. Senate, Mike Enzi, Interior Policy
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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: White House, Republican Party, U.S. Senate, Budgets and Budgeting, Mike Enzi
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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: U.S. House Committee on Agriculture, Science and Technology, U.S. Congress, Marketing, Arable Farming
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Defense Department responds to Kapaun medal request
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - The Defense Department says it supports recent legislation that allows a Kansas Army chaplain to be awarded the Medal of Honor.
Jo Ann Rooney, an undersecretary of defense, told Sen. Pat Roberts in a recent letter the...Tags: U.S. Department of Defense, Korean War (1950-1953), Awards and Prizes, Pilsen
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