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Jobs versus health: a false choice
Why are power plants worth more than the health of 140,000 Maryland children afflicted with asthma? What about pregnant women eating mercury-tainted fish from the Chesapeake Bay? How could their risk be scored so low compared to a utility plant's profit?...Tags: Talk Shows (genre), John Shimkus, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Mining, Technology
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Iraqis, Afghans who helped U.S. in wars look to Congress for resettlement
McClatchy Washington BureauWASHINGTON Congress will consider legislation Friday that could ease the way for thousands of Iraqis and Afghans to resettle in the United States to escape the dangers that come with their work for the U.S. military, news outlets and nonprofit groups....Tags: Government, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Wars and Interventions, Kabul (Afghanistan), Labor Legislation
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A faint echo of 9/11
WASHINGTON -- The morning after the Boston Marathon bombings, Ben Cardin, the first speaker on the Senate floor after leaders opened the day's session, marked the national crisis with some heartfelt thoughts on … school libraries. "Across the...
Tags: NASCAR, Iraq War (2003-2011), Personal Weapon Control, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Parties and Movements
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New bill would ease state-federal pot conflict
SEATTLE (AP) — A bill introduced in Congress on Friday would fix the conflict between the federal government's marijuana prohibition and state laws that allow medical or recreational use. California Republican Rep. Dana Rohrabacher said his bill,...
Tags: Justin Amash, Jared Polis, Medical Marijuana Therapy, Laws, Don Young
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Forcing the feds' hand on marijuana [Blowback]
In opposing HR 689, a bill by Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) to federally reclassify marijuana as most other legal prescription drugs and remove oversight from the Drug Enforcement Administration and give it to the states, The Times states in its Feb. 28...Tags: Post-traumatic Stress Disorder , Multiple Sclerosis, Medical Research, Government, Food and Drug Administration
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The right way to regulate pot
Political movements like the tea party may come and go, but the pot party seems to get stronger with every national election, putting the federal government in an increasingly untenable position. To date, more than one-third of the states and the...
Tags: Government, Food and Drug Administration, Medical Marijuana Therapy, Heroin, Prescription Drugs
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Protect Our Prairies Act creates a nationwide ÂSodsaver provision
Washington, DC - On Feb. 14, Representatives Kristi Noem (R-SD) and Tim Walz (D-MN), along with six additional cosponsors, introduced bipartisan legislation that would protect our nation's remaining native prairies and prime grasslands. The Protect...Tags: Natural Resource Industry, Kristi Noem, Bennie G. Thompson, Congressional Budget Office, Collin Peterson
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Rohrabacher wants federal pot laws to mirror states'
Citing concerns about resources wasted on the enforcement of an inconsistent patchwork of marijuana regulation, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Huntington Beach) plans to introduce a bill that would require the federal government to mirror individual states' pot...Tags: Medical Marijuana Therapy, Dana Rohrabacher, Health Treatments
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Judge rules against Oakland in medical marijuana lawsuit
L.A. NOWA U.S. magistrate judge on Thursday sided with federal prosecutors in dismissing a lawsuit by the city of Oakland that challenged as illegal federal attempts to shutter the nation’s largest medical marijuana dispensary. In filing the suit last... -
Boehner cancels House vote as 'Plan B' falls short of GOP support
WASHINGTON — House Speaker John A. Boehner abruptly called off a vote on his “Plan B” tax proposal late Thursday, a stunning political defeat after GOP leaders failed to round up support for his alternative to a broader budget deal...Tags: George W. Bush, Paul Ryan, Paul C. Broun, Plan B (drug), Parties and Movements
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Obama's secret plan: Governing by regulation
— Most people don't remember ObamaCare's notorious Section 1233, mandating government payments for end-of-life counseling. It aroused so much anxiety as a possible first slippery step on the road to state-mandated late-life rationing that the Senate...Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, The Washington Post, Litigation and Regulation, Healthcare Laws, The New York Times
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Home buyer tax credit might be extended for service members
Will Congress extend the wildly popular $8,000 home buyer tax credit beyond its Dec. 1 expiration date?
That's a question generating huge pressure on Capitol Hill from would-be buyers who haven't found the right house as well as from realty agents,...Tags: Real Estate Agents, The Washington Post, Johnny Isakson, Homes, Democratic Party
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