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Spud diet wins Washington Potato Man of Year award

The Daily Caller - 1day 23hrs ago

MOSES LAKE, Wash. (AP) — Sticking to an all-potato diet for 60 days has earned Chris Voigt the Washington State Potato Commission’s Potato Man of the Year honor. The Columbia Basin Herald reports the award was presented to the Pasco ma…

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Another House GOP Member Opts Out Of Congressional Health Plan

Wonk Room - 9 days ago

Another House GOP Member Opts Out Of Congressional Health Plan Moments ago, during a hearing in the Rules Committee, another Republican who supports repealing the Affordable Care Act announced that he would forgo the Federal Employers’ He…

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Lawmakers wage almost completely symbolic health-care fight (The Ticket)

Yahoo! News - 4th Jan 2011

Today, a congressman offered a symbolic Protest in response to talking-point Rhetoric ahead of a symbolic vote on Health Care. Just another day in Washington. There's little if anything concrete behind the health-care battle currently taking pla…

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Schumer: Health care foes should forego coverage

Politico - 4th Jan 2011

New York Senator Chuck Schumer is pushing Republican members of Congress who oppose last year's Health Care Legislation to decline health coverage for themselves and their families. Democrats have been trying to cast Republican members' accepta…

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Tax compromise at the expense of taxpayers

Washington Examiner - 20th Dec 2010

Republican congressional leadership congratulated itself for leading nine "moderate" GOP senators away from a cliff and back to solid footing by persuading them not to vote with Democrats on a 1,924-page, $1.2 Trillion omnibus spending bill that h…

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Obama expected to sign child nutrition bill

Yahoo! News - 13th Dec 2010

WASHINGTON – Legislation to provide more lunches and dinners to school Children and make the meals healthier is expected to become law on Monday. President Barack Obama, accompanied by his wife, Michelle, is scheduled to sign the bill at a…

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Obama expected to sign child nutrition bill

The Daily Caller - 13th Dec 2010

WASHINGTON (AP) — Legislation to provide more lunches and dinners to school Children and make the meals healthier is expected to become law on Monday. President Barack Obama, accompanied by his wife, Michelle, is scheduled to sign the bill a…

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Sharon Chirban, Ph.D.: Why We Need to Fight Against Childhood Obesity Now

The Huffington Post - 8th Dec 2010

The nation's struggle with Obesity has been going on for years. But recently, we've declared war on the problem. The Centers for Disease Control said last month that one in three people would have Diabetes by the year 2050, and that one in thre…

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