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Unlike the House’s version, the Senate’s economic recovery plan includes money for fixed-rate farm loans that advocates say are needed to sustain the U.S. agriculture economy.
Last week, the House of Representatives passed the “Pelosi Pork Package,” a massive spending bill disguised as a stimulus plan. I joined every one of my Republican colleagues and 11 of my Democrat colleagues and voted against this obscene bill, standing up for the American taxpayer and our future generations.
WASHINGTON — Oklahoma Republicans on Saturday came out against a compromise on a massive economic package of spending and tax relief designed to stimulate the nation's ailing economy.
Washington—The House Agriculture Committee held Feb. 3 the first in a series of hearings to review legislation addressing the derivatives markets.
Today, the House of Representatives passed the Senate-amended expansion of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program by a vote of 290-135. Disguised as a program to grant low-income children health insurance, this bill will allow Speaker Pelosi to moves this country closer to a socialized health care system at a massive cost to the American taxpayers. Congressman Frank Lucas explains his
Today, the House of Representatives passed the Senate-amended reauthorization of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, or SCHIP, by a vote of 290-135. This is a federally funded program that is supposed to provide health care to low-income children whose families cannot afford private health insurance.
Feb. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Collin Peterson, chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, said his proposal to ban a majority of the $28 trillion credit-default swap market wouldn’t be permanent and is meant to complement a restriction on short sales of stock imposed by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
WASHINGTON — The economic stimulus bill approved by the House last week and a similar bill to be considered in the Senate this week give state and federal officials wide latitude in spending hundreds of billions of dollars.