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		<title>House to vote this week on Hinchey Hudson Valley NPS study bill</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hudson Highlands]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[House to vote this week on Hinchey Hudson Valley NPS study bill
WASHINGTON – The House of Representatives this week will vote on legislation introduced by Congressman Maurice Hinchey that would authorize the National Park Service to conduct a study on whether the Hudson River Valley should become a unit of the National Park system.
&#8220;Passage of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Investigating the Investigators: How the House Ethics Committee Works &#8211; ProPublica</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 11:32:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Investigating the Investigators: How the House Ethics Committee Works
Tickle fights vs. groping. Salty language vs. sexual harassment. For those who&#38;apos;ve been following the media circus around ex-Rep. Eric Massa, D-N.Y., there&#38;apos;s been quite a lot to follow. Nonetheless, on Wednesday the House ethics committee closed its investigation into Massa, claiming his resignation rendered any findings [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Legacy of Billy Tauzin: The White House-PhRMA Deal — Making Government Transparent and Accountable &#8211; Sunlight Foundation Blog</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 11:29:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Legacy of Billy Tauzin: The White House-PhRMA Deal
By Paul Blumenthal on 02/12/10 @ 12:51 pm &#124; 32 Comments
More than a million spectators gathered  before the Capitol on a frosty January afternoon to witness the  inauguration of Barack Obama, who promised in his campaign to change  Washington’s mercenary culture of lobbyists, special [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Midway Message from the Gyre</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 11:25:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[MidwayMessage from the Gyre
These photographs of albatross chicks were made in September, 2009, on Midway Atoll, a tiny stretch of sand and coral near the middle of the North Pacific. The nesting babies are fed bellies-full of plastic by their parents, who soar out over the vast polluted ocean collecting what looks to them like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Brief History of Senate Reconciliation Votes — Making Government Transparent and Accountable &#8211; Sunlight Foundation Blog</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:45:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As Democrats move forward to pass health care reform attention has  focused on a key piece of Senate rules known as budget reconciliation.  This post takes Senate vote records covering 13 key reconciliation votes  from 1990 to 2007 to show how senators in both parties voted–and how  sitting senators voted in [...]]]></description>
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