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WASHINGTON, D. C.: As Congress quietly returned to work this week after a three-week vacation, the House advanced its version of the "Freedom to Farm" bill, a major piece of agriculture legislation with the potential to roll back crop-subsidy programs born in the Great Depression. The bill would wean wheat, corn and cotton farmers off the current system of crop supports by replacing it with a seven-year program of declining, fixed payments. Subsidies of peanuts and sugar remain in place, to the chagrin of some members on both sides of the aisle. House leaders have limited...
...have conducted a three-week political campaign that will go down as legend," Buchanan said. "We're going to recapture the sovereignty of our country...
...newly-created Fannie Mae Fellows Program will bring up to 25 people to the Kennedy School's three-week summer Program for Senior Executives in State and Local Government for each of the next four years, according to the Harvard Gazette...
After being on Harvard's campus only a week, she learned that she would have to undergo major invasive surgery. Because the doctors predicted a three-week recovery period, the Harvard administration suggested that she take a year...
Confronted with negative polls and a frustrated public, Republicans staged a tactical withdrawal from the three-week government shutdown. At week's end, both houses passed and the President signed legislation returning all federal employees to work with pay through Jan. 26. However, the measures will leave many government functions still unfunded...