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        <title>Collin Peterson</title>
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			<title><![CDATA[Bachmann, Tea Party leaders demand thorough IRS investigation]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-05-17 00:54:04</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann says the IRS targeting of Tea Party and conservative groups that sought tax-exempt status during the 2012 election cycle is "far worse" than the Watergate scandal of the Nixon presidency. 

During a news conference Thursday on...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Farmers got too much aid in drought, report says]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-05-10 01:05:44</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON - Farmers gained unnecessarily at taxpayers' expense in the drought of 2012 because of the nation's crop insurance program, an environmental research and advocacy group charged on May 1. 

Citing a report prepared by University of Iowa...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Minnesota Rep. John Kline is chair, but title holds less power]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-04-29 00:54:04</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[As chairman of the House Education and Workforce Committee, Republican U.S. Rep. John Kline oversees an annual budget of more than $6 million and an influential panel that's supposed to hold sway over legislation that touches the lives of almost every...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Debate circles online sales tax]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-04-27 00:34:02</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Landmark legislation to force online and mail-order retailers to collect sales tax on out-of-state purchases advanced toward Senate passage this week. 

Retail giants such as Minnesota-based Target and Best Buy have spent millions of dollars over the past...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[New USDA 'rural' definition stirs up controversy]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-03-22 01:05:47</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[A proposed definition of the term rural submitted by the Department of Agriculture to Congress last month could have broad implications for small towns across America - and not everyone is happy about it. The report - delivered two and one-half years...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Protect Our Prairies Act creates a nationwide ĀSodsaverĀ provision]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-02-22 01:05:21</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Washington, DC - On Feb. 14, Representatives Kristi Noem (R-SD) and Tim Walz (D-MN), along with six additional cosponsors, introduced bipartisan legislation that would protect our nation's remaining native prairies and prime grasslands. 

The Protect...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[House Ag Committee member seeks guarantee before tackling farm bill]]></title>
			
			

			
			<link>http://www.latimes.com/topic/aan-ff.01-18-13.farmbillguarante-20130118,0,1647573.story?track=rss-topicgallery</link>
				
			
			<pubDate>2013-01-18 01:05:19</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Minnesota U.S. Rep. Collin Peterson said on Jan. 2 he's so upset that Congress passed only a short extension of the 2008 Farm Bill that he won't work on a new version without assurances from congressional leaders it will get a vote....]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Tone of letter affects impact]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-01-12 21:47:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[There are ways to write a letter and then there are ways to write a letter. 

 One way includes pleasantries, ideas, even artful persuasion. Another features anger, bile and bricks. 

 These differences were on display recently when two members of...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Farm Bill gamble means trouble]]></title>
			
			

			
			<link>http://www.latimes.com/topic/aan-ff.10-05-12.guebert-20121005,0,7845609.story?track=rss-topicgallery</link>
				
			
			<pubDate>2012-10-05 01:05:36</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[A long, bitter year in the long, bitter Congressional session drifted into the campaign season with the U.S. House of Representatives unable or unwilling to butter the softest piece of legislative toast before them, the 2012 Farm Bill. 

Speaker of the...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Farm Bill gamble means trouble]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2012-09-29 21:22:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[ A long, bitter year in the long, bitter Congressional session drifted into the campaign season with the U.S. House of Representatives unable or unwilling to butter the softest piece of legislative toast before them, the 2012 Farm Bill.

 Speaker of the...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Farmers rally for action on stalled farm bill]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2012-09-21 01:05:31</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, D.C. - Minnesota farmer Dale Fladeboe hoisted a sign above his head that read, "Do you eat? You need a farm bill now." 

Fladeboe was among hundreds of farmers from across the country who flew in to the nation's capital for a Sept. 12 rally...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Peterson optimistic sugar program will be in next farm bill]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2012-03-30 01:05:26</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[GRAND FORKS, N.D. - U.S. Rep. Collin Peterson, D-Minn., said recently that he is optimistic the U.S. sugar program will be continued in the next farm bill, but he said he is unsure when - or if - a proposed $1.78 billion Red River diversion to protect...]]></description>
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