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Senators Urge Broad Review of Smithfield Sale
2013-06-20 15:59:00| National Hog Farmer
Source: U.S. Senate A bipartisan group of senators including Sen. Debbie Stabenow, chairwoman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry and Sen. Thad Cochran, ranking member of the committee, raised questions Wednesday regarding government oversight of the proposed purchase of Smithfield Foods and future foreign acquisitions of American agriculture companies. read more
California senators want more information on oil well 'acid jobs'
2013-06-19 05:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: California state legislators on Tuesday told regulators and oil industry lobbyists they wanted more information about the use of acid to increase flows in wells in a technique that is used more often in the state than the controversial fracking method. California's century-old oil sector has come in for greater scrutiny as companies make early attempts to tap the Monterey shale, a deep formation that holds an estimated 15 billion barrels of oil - twice that of North Dakota's widely publicized Bakken...
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Senators call for end to Justice Department's 'secret law'
2013-06-11 20:31:35| CNET News.com
Obama administration's secret interpretation of the Patriot Act allows it to vacuum up records on all Americans' phone calls. But an earlier effort to fix the law in December failed. [Read more]
In wake of devastating factory fire, U.S. senators urge reforms in Bangladesh apparel industry
2013-06-07 01:54:43| Apparel - Topix.net
At a hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, senators leveled a new round of harsh criticism on an industry they said has consistently failed to reform its operations.
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Senator's wife on Facebook: Keep away from my man, strippers
2013-06-06 07:53:43| CNET News.com
The wife of Alabama state Sen. Shadrack McGill decides that she must go to Facebook to shame those women who are allegedly chasing her man, even coming to their front door. [Read more]
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