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Senate Passes $109 Billion Emergency Spending Bill
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The Senate added money to rebuild a highway in Hawaii; protect riverbanks in California; upgrade a hurricane barrier in Providence, R.I.; and compensate New England shell fishermen for their losses from a red tide outbreak. The Senate also took steps to make farming less risky by offering compensation for virtually any scourge, including drought, flood, wildfires and pestilence. (Washington Post [1], Friday)
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The America We Lost [2] by Mario A. Pei
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[1] Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/04/AR2006050400230.html
[2] The America We Lost: http://www.fee.org/publications/the-freeman/article.asp?aid=3005
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