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Farm Bill Moving Forward
2013-05-13 17:27:00| National Hog Farmer
By P. Scott Shearer, Bockorny Group, Washington, DC The farm bill process is moving forward this week with the Senate Agriculture Committee marking up its farm bill, The Agriculture Reform, Food and Jobs Act of 2013, tomorrow. The House Agriculture Committee will be considering its version, The Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management (FARRM) Act of 2013, on Wednesday. The Senate bill cuts a total of $23 billion over 10 years and the House bill cuts $39.7 billion. read more
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A Rare Bipartisan Clean Energy Bill Is Ready for Passage
2013-05-13 13:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: Congressional lawmakers from both parties are taking a step to catalyze the nation's clean energy economy: After 32 years of restricting a crucial investment tool to expanding fossil fuels, they're pushing to open it to renewables. Legislation is moving through both houses to tweak the tax code to let clean energy developers form a master limited partnership, or MLP, a type of publicly traded company structure not subject to corporate taxes. For three decades, coal, oil and gas companies have used...
Bill Gates: Steve Jobs was better at design than I was
2013-05-13 08:12:18| CNET News.com
In an emotional interview on "60 Minutes", the Microsoft chairman speaks of visiting Steve Jobs in his last days and marveling at how well he understood the concept of brand. [Read more]
NFU: 2013 Farm Bill Gaining Momentum
2013-05-13 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
US - National Farmers Union (NFU) President Roger Johnson issued a statement regarding the release of the initial draft of the 2013 Farm Bill by the US House of Representatives Committee on Agriculture.
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Local legislators support Truth-About-Testing bill
2013-05-12 12:39:15| Footwear - Topix.net
The new, more rigorous Common Core assessments concern both parents and teachers who want to know how much these tests are costing school districts, both monetarily and in terms of class time.
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