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Senate passes farm bill
Associated PressWASHINGTON -- The Senate on Monday passed a five-year, half-trillion-dollar farm bill that expands government subsidies for crop insurance, rice and peanuts, while making small cuts to food stamps. The bill passed on a bipartisan 66-27 vote. Sens. Tim...Tags: Barack Obama, Tim Johnson, Heidi Heitkamp, John Thune, Farms
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COLUMN: Sad fates wait for defeated candidates
"There are no second acts in American lives," F. Scott Fitzgerald once wrote, and his line has often been applied to politics. There’s a lot of truth in it, as Mitt Romney and Michele Bachmann may be about to discover. In the past week, both made...Tags: Dick Cheney, Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, Dwayne Johnson, Ronald Reagan
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Farming: June is . . . a mess
Less than a generation ago, June meant the end of school, the beginning of summer and the arrival of Dairy Month. Now, somehow, June has become the Golf Channel’s official Pace of Play Month, LGBT Pride Month (you can look that up) and Farm Bill...Tags: U.S. Senate, John Thune, John Boehner, U.S. House of Representatives, POLITICO LLC
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House votes to stop deportation deferrals
WASHINGTON - The partisan divide over immigration reform was exposed Thursday as House Republicans voted to stop funding the Obama administration program that has halted deportation of young immigrants who are in high school or college, or have served...Tags: Barack Obama, U.S. Senate, Career and Workplace, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Tribune Company
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Sad fates wait for defeated candidates
"There are no second acts in American lives," F. Scott Fitzgerald once wrote, and his line has often been applied to politics. There's a lot of truth in it, as Mitt Romney and Michele Bachmann may be about to discover. In the past week, both made news...Tags: Dick Cheney, Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, Dwayne Johnson, Ronald Reagan
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IRS scandal fails to dent Obama's standing
For more than two years, GOP lawmakers have sought - and failed - to find a scandal to take down the presidency of Barack Obama. It's not been for lack of trying. There was Solyndra, an expensive, failed effort to underwrite a firm promising solar...Tags: Barack Obama, The Washington Post, ABC (tv network), CNN (tv network), Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
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Rising consumer demand aids organic industry sway
WASHINGTON (AP) - The organic food industry is gaining influence on Capitol Hill, prompted by its entry into traditional farm states and by increasing consumer demand. That's not going over well with everyone in Congress. Tensions between conventional...Tags: Arts and Culture, Dining and Drinking, Austin Scott, Organic Foods, Vicky Hartzler
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Column: Benghazi and IRS: Sons of Watergate?
In his defense of President Barack Obama, press secretary Jay Carney is beginning to sound a lot like Ronald Zeigler, Richard Nixon's spokesman. Carney only has to use the word "inoperative," as Ziegler did when incriminating evidence surfaced that proved...Tags: Charles W. Boustany, Jr., Barack Obama, The Washington Post, U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, CBS Corp.
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Interim committees to investigate K-12 funding, domestic violence
PIERRE — With barely a tussle, the Legislature’s Executive Board appointed lawmakers Monday to two interim committees that will study parts of South Dakota’s funding system for public schools and gaps in state laws regarding domestic...Tags: U.S. Senate, Canton (Hartford, Connecticut), Schools, Jean Hunhoff, Jim Bradford
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Obama's plan to avoid lame-duckery
For the last two months, President Barack Obama has been mired in Washington's inside game, caught up in backroom congressional politics as he tried unsuccessfully to pass a bill on gun control and nudge Republican senators toward compromise on the...Tags: U.S. Senate, Barack Obama, State of the Union Address, Gun Control, Polls
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Column: Obama's plan to avoid lame duckery
For the last two months, President Barack Obama has been mired in Washington’s inside game, caught up in backroom congressional politics as he tried unsuccessfully to pass a bill on gun control and nudge Republican senators toward compromise on...Tags: U.S. Senate, Barack Obama, State of the Union Address, Gun Control, Polls
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Notebook: No challengers yet for Rounds
We are now a year from the June 3, 2014, primary elections in South Dakota. That is significant because South Dakota voters will choose a new U.S. senator next year. So far voters don’t have a choice. The only declared candidate is Republican...Tags: U.S. Senate, Tim Johnson, John Thune, Government, Political Candidates
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