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10 Sep 2012, 12:00 am
He also was appointed to the Department of Education’s National Commission on Educational Equity and Excellence, as well as the Department of State’s Advisory Sub-Committee on Economic Sanctions. [read post]
7 Sep 2012, 10:18 am by Jenna Greene
Or should it be a Raccoon Dog, as the Humane Society of the United States suggests, because that's the scientifically accepted common name for the animal, nyctereutes procyonoides? [read post]
2 Sep 2012, 2:59 am
 Oh, and a $149 billion budget.In rural America, the Secretary of Agriculture is the face of the federal government after the President of the United States, who most do not see much unless they live in a swing state like Iowa. [read post]
22 Aug 2012, 12:39 pm by Susan Schneider
ChinaAdmitted to practice law in CaliforniaErin Elizabeth KeeB.A., College of Charleston (Political Science), cum laude, Phi Sigma PiJ.D., University of South Carolina School of LawMasters of Environmental Law and Policy, Vermont Law SchoolLegal experience: Contract Attorney, Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, LLP;  Legislative Research Intern, Rural Vermont, Farm Advocacy Group; Law Clerk, The South Carolina Department of Agriculture, Office of the Commissioner;… [read post]
7 Aug 2012, 3:45 pm
 Today from Cato's Thomas Firey comes another eye-opening - and sigh-worthy - stat about the United States' addiction to spending: the 2.4 trillion - with a "T" - dollars in borrowed money that the US government has spent on "stimulus" measures since 2008: [The Stimulus] was just one of several fiscal stimulus bills that Washington adopted, beginning with the February 2008 Economic Stimulus Act and continuing through to early this year. [read post]
7 Aug 2012, 11:01 am by Jim Chen
Once secession had split asunder the United States, the land grabs that these treaties effected gave way to the creation of the Department of Agriculture and the trinity of great land grant statutes signaled northern legislative supremacy during the Civil War: the Homestead Act, the Morrill Land-Grant College Act, and the Pacific Railway Act. [read post]
7 Aug 2012, 11:01 am by Jim Chen
Once secession had split asunder the United States, the land grabs that these treaties effected gave way to the creation of the Department of Agriculture and the trinity of great land grant statutes signaled northern legislative supremacy during the Civil War: the Homestead Act, the Morrill Land-Grant College Act, and the Pacific Railway Act. [read post]
7 Aug 2012, 11:01 am by Jim Chen
Once secession had split asunder the United States, the land grabs that these treaties effected gave way to the creation of the Department of Agriculture and the trinity of great land grant statutes signaled northern legislative supremacy during the Civil War: the Homestead Act, the Morrill Land-Grant College Act, and the Pacific Railway Act. [read post]
26 Jul 2012, 8:56 am
These subsidies are handed out from programs in many departments, including the departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Energy, and Housing and Urban Development. [read post]
17 Jul 2012, 1:53 pm by David Doniger
  The United States is responsible for more than 90 percent of all methyl bromide exemptions. [read post]
14 Jul 2012, 1:12 pm
The now infamous Peanut Corporation of America Salmonella tragedy sickened several hundred throughout the United States and killed nine. [read post]
12 Jul 2012, 2:59 am
  Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are the second most common type of infection in the body, accounting for 8.1 million visits to health care providers in the United States each year and around $1-2 billion per year in health care costs. [read post]
11 Jul 2012, 2:59 am
  Black, a former president of the Georgia Agribusiness Council, was elected after the Peanut Corporation of America plant produced peanut butter and peanut paste contaminated with Salmonella, killing nine people and sickening hundreds of others nationwide.Georgia lawmakers reacted to the outbreak by passing a law requiring the state's food processors to conduct regular internal pathogen tests and report any positive results to the Department of… [read post]
10 Jul 2012, 4:27 pm
Department of Agriculture has doled out millions of dollars in subsidies to farms on which farming isn’t actually taking place, according a new report from government watchdogs. [read post]
19 Jun 2012, 2:59 am
Department of Agriculture (USDA) and - since 2003 - Homeland Security. [read post]