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The U.S. House Agriculture Committee will debate legislation today to reauthorize farm programs, a day after the Senate panel approved a version that will cost $955 billion over 10 years.
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Senator Thad Cochran bought shares of Crimson Exploration Inc., a Houston-based oil company, in two trades a week apart last fall. The shares climbed for six weeks and Cochran sold them on Dec. 15 for a profit.
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President Barack Obama is proposing a fundamental shift in how the U.S. feeds the hungry overseas, a plan the administration says will help more people for less money though critics warn it will cost jobs at home.
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U.S. Representative Sander Levin, a Democrat from Michigan, recalls his last substantive issue discussion with a Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee.
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Chuck Hagel was sworn in as U.S. defense secretary today, battered politically by a confirmation fight even as he takes on challenges from Pentagon budget cuts to withdrawing U.S. forces from Afghanistan.
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No sooner had the 2012 election ended than Northrop Grumman Corp. and CSX Corp. set their sights on the looming budget cuts and the 2014 campaign.
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Chuck Hagel’s chances of winning Senate confirmation as President Barack Obama’s next defense secretary gained momentum as Republicans led by John McCain said they would oppose any attempt to block a vote on the nominee.
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Cruelty, fear, cowardice, xenophobia and disrespect invaded the inner sanctum of the U.S. government this week, bringing embarrassment and dishonor to what was once the greatest deliberative body in the world: the U.S. Senate.
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House Minority Leader John Boehner rails against government spending yet votes for a $485 million appropriation for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter’s alternative engine, which the Pentagon wants to kill. Boehner’s district is near the General Electric plant that’s building the engine.
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JPMorgan Chase & Co. , sued by the trustee for Bernard Madoff’s defunct firm for $6.4 billion for allegedly aiding the con man’s fraud, asked a judge to remove the case from bankruptcy court because it raises “novel and unsettled questions” beyond the court’s scope and expertise.
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