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“I haven’t seen so much lard,” said Ronald Reagan, “since I handed out blue ribbons at the Iowa State Fair.” It was March 1987, and the president was using his weekly radio address to blast a highway spending bill he’d just vetoed.
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President Barack Obama joined lawmakers from Congress and Hawaii at a memorial service in Honolulu to pay tribute to U.S. Senator Daniel Inouye, who died Dec. 17 of respiratory complications.
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Daniel Inouye, an American of Japanese ancestry who lost his right arm fighting for his country in World War II and went on to represent Hawaii in Congress for its first half century as a state, has died. He was 88.
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President Barack Obama joined lawmakers, allies and family friends at a memorial service today honoring the life of Senator Daniel Inouye, the war hero who represented Hawaii since statehood in 1959.
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Robert Byrd , the U.S. senator who set records for longevity in Congress while becoming known for his powerful oratory and mastery of legislative rules and traditions, has died. He was 92.
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U.S. Senator Robert Byrd , a Democrat from West Virginia, is in a Washington area hospital and his doctors described his condition as “seriously ill,” according to a statement from his office.
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Americans are angry, pollsters and cable television hosts tell us. Really they are depressed, deeply discouraged and feeling helpless as they watch oil spewing into the Gulf of Mexico, their unemployed neighbors paying too much attention to the lawn, and banks escaping the tight regulation called for after bringing the economy to a screeching halt.
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The death of Democratic Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia may delay the vote on a package of new rules for Wall Street.
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West Virginia Governor Joe Manchin called the state’s legislature into an emergency July 15 session to decide whether to hold a special election this year to pick a successor to late Senator Robert Byrd .
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U.S. regulators sued a Georgia accountant over claims he passed confidential information on Sanofi-Aventis Inc.’s 2009 offer to buy Chattem Inc. to friends who then made illegal trades ahead of the deal’s announcement.
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