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The Colorado Republicans who voted unanimously this week against superstorm Sandy recovery funding did so in part because their state didn’t get an opportunity to win some of its own disaster relief money.
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More than 6 in 10 Americans support a ban on assault rifles and high-ammunition magazines, according a poll conducted after last week’s mass shootings in Newtown, Connecticut.
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Seeking to quell environmental concerns about the chemicals it shoots underground to extract oil and natural gas, Apache Corp. told shareholders in April that it disclosed information about “all the company’s U.S. hydraulic fracturing jobs” on a website last year.
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The U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee should hold a hearing on the outbreak of listeria in cantaloupe that has killed at least 15 people, two senior Democrats on the panel said.
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About 35 percent of the $200 million the U.S. government planned to award this year in grants for embryonic stem cell research won’t be distributed after a judge’s ruling banned the funding.
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Research using human embryonic stem- cell lines approved under President Barack Obama is accelerating, boosting a scientific field that’s been dogged by legal and political threats.
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The Federal Communications Commission said it initially approved Philip Falcone’s LightSquared Inc. without knowing the wireless service would interfere with global positioning system signals, because GPS- gear makers didn’t complain.
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The House Energy and Commerce Committee this week takes up the “No More Solyndras Act” -- a measure presumably designed to keep the U.S. from wasting money, especially on shaky start-ups based outside Republican congressional districts.
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Fourteen oil and gas companies used 780 million gallons of hydraulic-fracturing products from 2005 and 2009, including toxic substances like benzene and lead, to extract gas from shale rock, according to a report by Democrats in the U.S. Congress.
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Drugmakers led by Pfizer Inc. agreed to run a “very significant public campaign” bankrolling political support for the 2010 health-care law, including TV ads, while the Obama administration promised to block provisions opposed by drugmakers, documents released by Republicans show.
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