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Mikulski, Cardin seek more help for chicken farmers
U.S. Sens. Barbara A. Mikulski and Benjamin L. Cardin joined an informal Chicken Caucus of senators Monday to urge the U.S. Department of Agriculture to step up efforts to help the mid-Atlantic poultry industry cope with the economic impact of drought....Tags: Benjamin L. Cardin, Barbara A. Mikulski, Democratic Party, Livestock Farming, U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Lawmakers strike deal to save Eastern Shore mail center, but area post offices still vulnerable
Key senators reached a tentative agreement Tuesday to save a mail processing center considered significant to the Eastern Shore economy but left the fate of more than a dozen post offices in the Baltimore region uncertain as they considered a sweeping...
Tags: Mail Order Industry, Benjamin L. Cardin, Employees, Kent County, Barbara A. Mikulski
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Fairness for Eastern Shore chicken farmers
Within the poultry industry, company dealings with the farmers they contract with have been one-sided for at least the past 20 years. It's been a long, hard battle for contract farmers to try to gain any fairness in that relationship; I can't count the...Tags: U.S. Department of Justice, Economy, Business and Finance, Barbara A. Mikulski, Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers, U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations
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Post office closings: Necessary but insufficient
Ten Baltimore area post offices are at risk of closing. They are among 41 in Maryland and 3,700 nationwide that the Postal Service says it can no longer afford to operate, either because they don't have enough patrons or are located near another post...Tags: Mail Order Industry, Maine, Economy, Business and Finance, Darrell E Issa, Sales
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Rahm Emanuel: Health-care 'milestone'
The Swampby Mark Silva This, the White House makes clear, is not the goal line. With the Senate Finance Committee's passage of health-care legislation today, the fifth of five House and Senate committees with jurisdiction to adopt reforms having acted, the......Tags: Medical Services, Democratic Party, United States, Harry Reid, Radio Industry
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Obama Veep Watch
The Swampby The Swamp team With so much attention on whom Sen. Barack Obama is going to choose as his vice presidential running mate, we thought we'd try to monitor the rumors and speculation and try to separate the wheat......Tags: The New York Times, Indiana, Environmental Issues, Delaware, Natural Resources
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Lieberman regrets some Obama remarks
The Swampby James Oliphant Move over James Bond. There's a new indestructible action hero: Joe Lieberman. The senator from Connecticut, who was vilified by Democratic activists for his support of Republican presidential nominee John McCain, escaped serious...Tags: Parliament, Upper House, Punishment, Dick Durbin, Christopher Dodd
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