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Senate Passes Huge Farm Bill

Ending a six-week impasse, the Senate yesterday approved a $286 billion farm bill that would authorize significant new spending for farm programs, food stamps and conservation but would make only modest changes in the nation’s traditional agricultural subsidy system.
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Posted in Politics No Comments 15.12.2007 on 02:12.

Huck and Chuck Are Not Just Out For Kicks

TILTON, N.H., Dec. 14 — Mike Huckabee is looking pretty tough these days in the race to the Republican nomination, which is why Chuck Norris looks so right by his side on this first day they’re campaigning together.
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Republican With Links to Abramoff Is Sentenced

Italia Federici, who served as lobbyist Jack Abramoff’s conduit to the top ranks of the Interior Department, was sentenced yesterday to two months in a halfway house during a day in court that touched on her romantic liaisons, tax evasion and conduct before the Senate.
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In Mitt Romney’s Neighborhood, A Mormon Temple Casts a Shadow

BELMONT, Mass. — It is late in the afternoon, just hours after this town’s most famous resident and current Republican presidential candidate, Mitt Romney, delivered a speech in Texas to address questions about his Mormon faith. And for all the clamor surrounding him, here at the Boston…
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Bush’s Budget Wins May Cost Him

As Congress stumbles toward Christmas, President Bush is scoring victory after victory over his Democratic adversaries. He has beaten back domestic spending increases, thwarted an expansion of children’s health insurance coverage, defeated tax hikes, won funding for the war in Iraq and pushed…
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Posted in Politics No Comments 15.12.2007 on 01:12.

Congress’s Probe of CIA Tapes Resisted

The Justice Department moved yesterday to delay congressional inquiries into the CIA’s destruction of interrogation videotapes, saying the administration could not provide witnesses or documents sought by lawmakers without jeopardizing its own investigation of the CIA’s actions.
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Next President is Best Hope for Us Agreement

History suggests that Bush will never commit the US to any emissions target and that the best hope is to await a strong global climate deal after 2008, when a new US president takes over
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Senate Drops Measure to Greatly Reduce Sugar and Fat in Food at Schools

The Senate on Thursday night dropped an amendment to the farm bill that would have banned fatty foods and high-calorie beverages at school snack bars, stores and vending machines, dealing a blow to its chances of passage.
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Ohio Official Urges Replacing Voting Machines

COLUMBUS, Ohio — The state’s top elections official recommended yesterday that Ohio counties replace their touch-screen voting machines because the devices — in use for roughly two years — are vulnerable to manipulation.
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