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The high cost of tailpipe emissions
It isn't hard to recognize an example of false economy in the average household budget. The vegetable gardener who spends $500 on supplies to produce $12 in produce, the inexpensive home repair that falls apart in a month or the avid shopper who saves...
Tags: Arable Farming, Asthma, Barack Obama, Petroleum Industry, Global Warming
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Baltimore biodiesel fraud cases draws congressional interest
A federal investigation of fraud in the renewable fuels industry in Baltimore and Texas has drawn congressional interest, with Republican leaders of a House panel expressing concern that the Environmental Protection Agency's handling of the cases could...Tags: Perry Hall, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Company, Fraud, Corporate Crime, Exxon Mobil Corporation
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Solemn vote ends 'year of agony'
Sun ReporterSuspenseful it was not. And yet, when Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist called for the verdict in President Clinton's impeachment trial, he suddenly placed the weight of history on 100 sets of shoulders in the hushed Senate chamber. "Senators, how say...Tags: Trent Lott, Davis (Yolo, California), Judges, White House, Justice System
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OPINION: Q&A with Carlos Gutierrez
Detroit Free PressDuring his tenure as President George W. Bush's Secretary of Commerce, Cuban-born Carlos Gutierrez was the Bush administration's point man on immigration reform. Gutierrez, a former chairman and CEO of Kellogg, advised GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney...Tags: Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Detroit Free Press, Parties and Movements, Herman Cain, Immigration
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Walorski, Upton vote to repeal health care law
U.S. Rep. Jackie Walorski, R-Jimtown, was among 227 House Republicans and two House Democrats to vote Thursday to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. The vote was 229-195 in favor of repeal. Four Democrats...
Tags: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Republican Party, Elections, Democratic Party, Jackie Walorski
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U.S. House panel questions resignation of top FDA official
ReutersBy Toni Clarke May 13 (Reuters) - A U.S. House of Representatives panel is investigating the circumstances surrounding the resignation from the Food and Drug Administration of its acting deputy commissioner for medical products and tobacco. In a...Tags: Medical Research, Science, Food and Drug Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Johnson & Johnson Inc.
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US senator says Sebelius should stop healthcare fundraising
Reuters* House Republicans seek identity of companies contacted * Senate Republican calls on Sebelius to cease fund-raising By David Morgan WASHINGTON, May 13 (Reuters) - An Obama administration effort to raise private donations to help implement President...Tags: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Insurance, Healthcare Industry, Judges, Justice System
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Upton, NRC to visit Palisades Nuclear Power Plant Monday
VAN BUREN COUNTY -- Michigan Congressman Fred Upton, R- St. Joseph, along with a commissioner from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission will head to southwest Michigan today, to get a first-hand look at the troubled Palisades Nuclear Power Plant in Van...
Tags: Nuclear Power, Defense Equipment, Manufacturing and Engineering, Entergy Corporation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
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Walorski joins fellow Republicans, votes in favor of overtime bill
U.S. Rep. Jackie Walorski voted this week in favor of a bill that would allow private-sector employees to trade overtime pay for paid time off at the same rate of 1.5 hours per hour of overtime worked. The bill passed by a vote of 223-204 with mostly...Tags: Labor Legislation, Republican Party, Elections, Democratic Party, Employees
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Palisades water tank leak drawing attention
South Bend Tribune, Ind.The entry into Lake Michigan of 79 gallons of what officials at the Palisades Nuclear Power Plant and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission describe as "very slightly radioactive" water has drawn its share of attention, very little of it positive. The...Tags: U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Nuclear Power, Entergy Corporation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, The Huffington Post
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St. Joseph Harbor to get US funding for dredging
ST. JOSEPH, Mich. (AP) — U.S. Rep. Fred Upton says emergency federal funding will be used to dredge St. Joseph Harbor for the second straight year. The St. Joseph Republican made the announcement Friday. The dredging is necessary because of Lake...
Tags: U.S. Army
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Scaling the fiscal cliff
The optimism expressed early in the week on both sides of Washington’s political aisle for a deal to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff, lamentably, has waned. If last November’s failure of the “supercommittee” to reach a grand...Tags: Fiscal Cliff, Public Finance, Joe Donnelly, Dan Coats, Joe Donnelly
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