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		<title><![CDATA[From Baseball to Congress, Everyone Worries About Newspapers]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The crisis sweeping through the U.S. newspaper industry seems to be on everybody's minds these days. The broadcasters of yesterday's A's-Yankees game, for example, were riffing for a while on how few sports reporters travel with their teams any longer, when they turned to the biggest baseball story of the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:40:40 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[How Wikileaks Can Factor into a New Business Model]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, Wikileaks scored a journalistic coup by releasing what it characterizes as "nearly a billion dollars worth of quasi-secret reports commissioned by the United States Congress. The documents cache consists of 6,780 reports by the Congressional Research Service CRS, which is sometimes referred to as "Congress's Brain." This represents...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:30:02 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Campaign financing and America's evolving election system]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0QLQ/is_2008_May/ai_n25403676]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Campaign financing and America's evolving election system.  Ed. by Collin V. Pantesh.  Nova Science Publishers  2007  81 pages  $69.00  Paperback  JK1991  This volume contains a Congressional Research Service report on recent developments in campaign finance reform; a summary of the Bipartisan Campaign...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Conventional arms transfers to developing nations, 1999-2006]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[[The following are excerpts of the Conventional Arms Transfers to Developing Nations, 1999-2006, the complete report including all supporting charts and graphics are available at the following web site: http://openers.com/document/RL34187/2007-09-26%2000:00:00.]  Introduction and Overview  This report provides Congress with official, unclassified, background data from U.S. government sources on transfers...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2008 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[DNC: Bush Republicans Have It All Wrong]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[To: POLITICAL EDITORSContact: Stacie Paxton or Caroline Ciccone of the Democratic National Committee, +1-202-863-8148 WASHINGTON, Oct. 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean issued the following statement after President Bush threatened to veto funding important to the American people:"President Bush has it all wrong. Voting to end the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2007 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Where the money is]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1058/is_16_124/ai_n27341257]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[WHERE THE MONEY IS: The Congressional Research Service reported that CEOs are paid, on average, 179 times more than rank-and-file workers--almost double the 90-to-one ratio of 1994. If the federal minimum wage had risen as much as executive pay has since 1990, it would now be $22.61 an hour, according...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2007 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Public lands; use and misuse]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0QLQ/is_2007_August/ai_n19452180]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Public lands; use and misuse.  Ed. by William E. Neeley.  Nova Science Publishers  2007  141 pages  $69.00  Hardcover  HD221  Eight reprints of reports from the Congressional Research Service examine survey diverse forms of recreation on US government land and the resulting impact...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2007 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Billions spent on US wars]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_kmafp/is_200707/ai_n19348059]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON AFP &#8212; The United States has shelled out well over half a trillion dollars on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and running costs have hit 12 billion dollars a month, according to an independent report.  New figures by the non-partisan Congressional Research Service CRS emerged as debate...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jul 2007 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Where have all the bees gone?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_kmusa/is_200705/ai_n19043193]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA["The bees were gone," David Hackenberg says. "The honey was still there. There's young brood eggs still in the hive. Bees just don't do that."     On that November night last year in the Florida field where he wintered his bees, Hackenberg found 400 hives empty. Another...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2007 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Reid: Non-Partisan Budget Experts Confirm Bush is Misleading Public on War Funding Needs]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[To: POLITICAL EDITORSContact: Jim Manley or Rodell Mollineau of the Office of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, +1-202-224-2939 WASHINGTON, March 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid made the following statement upon receipt of a Congressional Research Service CRS analysis of the Army's ability to finance its operational needs...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2007 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Cannon Subcommittee Hearing Tuesday on Improving and Streamlining Federal Regulations]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[To: Assignment Desk, Daybook EditorContact: Jeff Lungren or Terry Shawn, 202-225-2492, both of the House Committee on the JudiciaryNews Advisory:WHAT: Oversight Hearing on the Administrative Law, Process and Procedure Project for the 21st CenturyWHO: Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law - Rep. Chris Cannon (R-Utah), ChairmanWHEN: 2 p.m. Tuesday, Nov....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Nov 2006 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Helping Gun Pushers at the Expense of Police: House Pushes Anti-Law Enforcement Bills]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, July 25 /U.S. Newswire/ -- If you're a cop on the beat, you should know that lawmakers in Congress have you targeted this week.  They're going to try to pass multiple bills that threaten to make your life more dangerous. One bill would prohibit police from disarming potential...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jul 2006 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[$1.27 trillion: the price is wrong: depending on which administration official you, um, believed, the Iraq War was going to cost anywhere from $200 million to zero. But it's going to fly over $1 trillion. Awaiting the arrival of a sane administration, we ]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb3463/is_200607/ai_n18247920]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[ON SEPTEMBER 11, 2001, THE UNITED STATES was hit by devastating  terrorist attacks perpetrated by a transnational terrorist network. Less  than a year later, it was apparent that the Bush administration wanted  to invade Iraq, allegedly as part of the response. Famously, selling  this agenda involved...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Jul 2006 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[DHS grant process reviewed.(Department of Homeland Security)(Brief article)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb6380/is_200605/ai_n25573477]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The recently revised risk- and needs-based grant allocation process  for the Department of Homeland Security needs oversight to ensure its  effectiveness, according to a new report by the Congressional Research  Service CRS entitled FY2006 Homeland Security Grant Distribution  Methods: Issues for the 109th Congress.  ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 May 2006 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1016/is_1_112/ai_n16419149]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Robert E. Wolf, 84, who during his 30-year career worked for the U.S. Forest Service, the Bureau of Land Management, the Congressional Research Service, and what is now the Office of Management and Budget. During that time, Wolf was involved in revising or enhancing nearly every significant piece of federal...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Mar 2006 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[CRS: ETHANOL'S BENEFITS FOR ENERGY CONSUMPTION, GHG LIMITED]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5619/is_200603/ai_n23626927]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[While ethanol has the potential to significantly displace petroleum demand, the overall benefits in terms of energy consumption and greenhouse gases are limited, especially for cornbased ethanol, according to a new report from the Congressional Research Service CRS.The report, Fuel Ethanol: Background and Public Policy Issues, looked at a host...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Mar 2006 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Indentured servitude?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1282/is_3_58/ai_n26696155]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[In Andrew C. McCarthy's recent article on the dispute over the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and executive power ("How to 'Connect the Dots,'" Jan. 30), he writes about a Congressional Research Service CRS report that "casts doubt on the administration's core [legal] contentions." McCarthy dismisses the report in part by...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2006 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[power of one, The]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa5392/is_200602/ai_n21409634]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The 35th birthday of the Environmental Protection Agency EPA passed last December 2 with little fanfare. EPA Administrator Stephen L. Johnson noted at the time that, "Over the last three and a half decades, through the use of innovative and collaborative approaches to environmental protection and a commitment to responsible...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2006 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[CRS: ENERGY CRISIS FAILED TO RESOLVE THE MOST DIVISIVE DEBATES]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5981/is_200601/ai_n24164402]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The gasoline price surge that followed Hurricanes Katrina and Rita influenced the debate over national energy policy, but the urgency of previous energy crises was lacking, observed the Congressional Research Service CRS. As a result, important issues, such as refinery revitalization, have not been resolved, and Capitol Hill watchers say...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2006 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Warrantless surveillance 'inconsistent with law,' report says]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_kmusa/is_200601/ai_n16013279]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration probably should have informed the members of the House and Senate Intelligence Committees of its warrantless surveillance program initiated after the Sept. 11 attacks, not merely a handful of congressional leaders, according to a report Wednesday by a research arm of Congress.  The report...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2006 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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