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Lucia Graves

Police Arrest 29 At Capitol For Protesting Clean Needle Exchange Ban

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 03.21.2012

Read More: Video, Speaker John Bohner, AIDS Activists, Needle Exchange Arrests, Hepatitis C, Denny Rehberg Montana, Hal Rogers, Need Exchange, Hiv, Syringe Exchange, Needle Exchange Demonstrations, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- During a demonstration Wednesday against the federal ban on clean needle exchange programs, a total of 29 AIDS activists were arrested a...

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Occupy Big Coal: Kentuckians to Protest Most Corrupt Member of Congress on Friday

Jeff Biggers | Posted 12.12.2011

Read More: Lobby, Dirty Coal, Poverty, Clean Water, 99 Percent Movement, Hal Rogers, Kentucky, Mountaintop Removal, Wall Street, Coal, Mine, Green News
Jeff Biggers

Wall Street and Big Coal corporations have no better friend than Rep. Hal Rogers (R-KY), the "prince of pork" and powerful chairman of the House Appropriations Committee.

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Jennifer Bendery

Nearly All Democrats Buck Vote In Protest Of Paying For Disaster Aid

HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 11.21.2011

Read More: Natural Disasters, Fema, Disaster Relief, FEMA Disaster Aid, Government Shutdown, Hal Rogers, Disaster Aid, Government Funding, Keith Ellison, Eric Cantor Disaster Aid, Republicans Disaster Aid, Eric Cantor, Politics News

UPDATE: 6 p.m. -- The House on Wednesday failed to pass a continuing resolution to keep the federal government funded past next week, a major defeat f...

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Michael McAuliff

Anti-Census Bill Slashes Economic Monitoring

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 09.11.2011

Read More: Census Economy, Census Bureau, Census Conspiracies, Budget Cuts, Budget, Crazy Census Conspiracies, Gross Domestic Product, Census Budget Cuts, Budget Cuts Census, Census, Census Constitution, Michele Bachmann, Hal Rogers, U.S. Census, 112th Congress, Michelle Bachmann Census, Ted Poe, Republicans Census, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- If you think Congress doesn't understand the economy now, wait till you see what a key House panel wants to do to the people who help fi...

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Agricultural Policy Should Fuel Health, Not Epidemics!

Elizabeth Kucinich | Posted 07.24.2011

Read More: American Heart Association, Fast Food, Congress, USDA Nutrition Programs, Type 2 Diabetes, Health Care Costs, Agriculture, USDA Policy, Subsidies, Agriculture Reform, Elizabeth Kucinich, Federal Budget, Agricultural Subsidies, Farm Bill, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, 2012 Farm Bill, House Agriculture Committee, Federal Budget Deficit, Prevention, Health, Food Politics, Agriculture Subsidies, Food, Usda, Pcrm, Medical Costs, Diabetes, Farm Subsidies, Heart Disease, Diabetes Prevention, Vegetarian, Vegan, Agribusiness, Veganism, Fruit, Industrial Agriculture, Meat, House Appropriations Committee, Preventative Healthcare, Food Policy Agenda, Appropriations, Death, Doctors, Cholesterol, Healthy Diet, Diet, Healthy Eating, Unhealthy Diets, Hal Rogers, Obesity, Politics News
Elizabeth Kucinich

In 2009, USDA spent more than twice as much buying meat and dairy as it did on fruits and vegetables. What that means is that the USDA used taxpayers' money to buy about $1.5 billion worth of meat and dairy.

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Proposed Spending Cuts Will Sacrifice Lives in Africa

Matthew Kavanagh | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Appropriations, HIV/AIDS, House Republicans, Budget, Hal Rogers, Africa, Impact News
Matthew Kavanagh

Among these cuts is a plan to slash more than $1 billion from global health programs. By my calculations these cuts will kill over a million people in Africa.

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Why Conservatives Should Love AmeriCorps, Not Kill It

Shirley Sagawa | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jumpstart, Experience Corps, Teach for America, Budget Cuts, Americorps, City Year, Hal Rogers, Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan, Volunteering, Service, Politics News
Shirley Sagawa

Despite the bipartisan majorities that created AmeriCorps in 1993, conservatives still can't get past the program's association with Bill Clinton.

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Just Plain Nuts: House Republican Budget Proposals Put Forth in the Most Haphazard Manner Imaginable

Scott Lilly | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Federal Bureau of Investigation, House Appropriations Committee, Veterans Affairs, Department of Defense, John Boehner, Spending Cuts, Homeland Security, Federal Government, Budget, Hal Rogers, Federal Aviation Administration, Food Safety, Alan Simpson, Paul Ryan, Politics News
Scott Lilly

House Republican are going down a dangerous road by forgoing the standard tools of the legislative process.

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Jason Linkins

Meet Your Incoming House Committee Chairs

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Eat the Press, Lamar Smith, Darrell Issa, Hal Rogers, Buck Mckeon, Peter King, House Committees, Steve King, Dave Camp, House of Representatives, Joe Barton, John Boehner, Slidepollajax, Fred Upton, Spencer Bachus, Joe Pitts, Paul Ryan, Politics News

With the GOP taking over the House of Representatives, there's going to be a major change in direction legislatively. John Boehner's charges will take...

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Hal Rogers, 'Prince Of Pork,' To Be Appointed GOP Chairman Of House Appropriations Committee

AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: House Appropriations Committee, Gop House Appropriations Chairman, Gop Earmarks, Gop Appropriations Committee, Earmarks, Hal Rogers, Gop House Appropriations Committee, Gop Appropriations Chairman, Gop Government Spending, Gop, Gop Spending, Politics News

A Kentucky congressman who has honed his skills at winning pork-barrel projects is in line to head the House committee that will spearhead the Republi...

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GOP Could Pick 'Prince Of Pork' To Become Next House Appropriations Committee Chairman

ABC News | Jonathan Karl | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gop Appropriations Committee, Gop Appropriations Chairman, Earmarks, Gop House Appropriations Committee, House Appropriations Committee, Gop, Hal Rogers, Gop Government Spending, Gop House Appropriations Chairman, Gop Spending, Gop Earmarks, Politics News

So, who will Republicans choose to run the committee that controls the government's purse strings? Will it be a proven deficit hawk? A fiscal conser...

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Did Judd Gregg Conceal Donors Who Received Millions In TSA Contracts While He Served As Approps Chair?

Mark Nickolas | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Senate Appropriations Committee, TSA Contracts, Homeland Security, Hal Rogers, Appropriations, Political Corruption, Judd Gregg, Pay to Play, FEC Reports, Politics News
Mark Nickolas

Did Gregg deliberately conceal nearly a dozen contributors to his leadership PAC -- White Mountain PAC -- at the very time he served as chairman of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee?

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