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Food safety bill sent to Obama's desk (Politico)

Yahoo! News - 17hrs 46mins ago

The House on Tuesday approved a sweeping overhaul of the nation's food regulatory system - sending the popular Bipartisan measure to the president's desk nearly a year and a half after it passed its first version of the bill. The Food Safety and …

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Democrats Optimistic About Census

The Caucus - 1day 2hrs ago

The conventional political wisdom is that the results of the 2010 Census, announced Tuesday, are a big win for Republicans, who are largely dominant in the states where population increased. But Democratic officials in Washington are cautiously o…

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Collins Picks Up Supporter

National Review Online - 7hrs 14mins ago

OPPOSITION LEADER : Collins announced up his third public Endorsement in the RNC race overnight, winning former Raleigh Mayor-turned-North Carolina GOP Chairman Tom Fetzer’s support. Fetzer, who called for Steele to resign last April, touted…

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Obama still looks ok in NC

Public Policy Polling - 8hrs 47mins ago

Barack Obama has improved his standing in North Carolina compared to a month ago and continues to appear to have at least an even money chance of taking the state again in 2012. 46% of voters in the state approve of the job Obama's doing to 49% w…

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Reapportionment winners and losers

The Fix - 1 day ago

Eighteen states traded 12 Congressional Seats on Tuesday, when the U.S. Census Bureau released its new reapportionment numbers for the 2012 election cycle. We detailed the changes earlier today, so we won't rehash it all here. But suffice it to sa…

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Honda begins flight testing new business jet in NC

Washington Examiner - 1day 2hrs ago

Honda is flight testing its first-ever commercial Aircraft in the North Carolina skies as it works toward Federal Aviation Administration certification. Greensboro-based Honda Aircraft Co. said Tuesday it successfully completed its first flight te…

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Census Gives More Congressional Seats to Republican Regions (The Atlantic Wire)

Yahoo! News - 1day 2hrs ago

WASHINGTON, DC – Conservatives' former foe, the Census Bureau, is about to new data that will increase their power in Congress. Earlier this year, many anti-government Activists refused to fill out their Census forms, and Republicans worri…

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North Carolina is the new Utah -- and DC representation is even deader than it was before

Washington Examiner - 1day 3hrs ago

D.C. congressional representation was a possibility last decade, in part because of a proposed Compromise that pleased Republicans: we increase the chamber from 435 seats to 437; D.C. would get one seat, and overwhelmingly Republican Utah would ge…

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