Lawmaker can't find spinach in stores
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A congressman who tried to stage a public spinach-eating news conference to demonstrate that the leafy greens are safe following a nationwide E. coli outbreak scrapped his plan after he could not find any in local grocery stores.
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By Mick Hinton, Tulsa World, Okla.  Feb. 13--OKLAHOMA CITY -- A bill that would curb the power of the attorney general to sue poultry companies was stalled in a House subcommittee on Monday.   Rep.
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Representative Paul Gillmor, a Republican, was found by members of his staff after he did not show up at his office.
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A state lawmaker wants to ban restaurants from serving food to obese customers Â but please, don't be offended.
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Federal officials narrowed their investigation and reminded consumers that spinach grown outside the three California counties implicated in the outbreak was safe to eat.
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A former top FDA official says inspection of food for hazards such as the current outbreak of E. coli bacteria in California spinach has fallen off each year.
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Home Depot is tired of being forced by local governments to accommodate the day laborers who turn up in its store parking lots seeking construction work. So the Georgia-based company turned to Congress for help.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration lifted its two-week-old consumer warning on most fresh spinach Friday, revising the alert to say it now covers only specific brands packaged on certain dates.
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As federal health officials investigate a deadly outbreak of bacteria-tainted bagged spinach that has killed one person and sickened dozens more, restaurants and grocery stores around the country are temporarily pulling spinach off menus and shelves.
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A key U.S. lawmaker said on Thursday he had not yet seen a workable approach to creating an approval pathway for generic versions of expensive biotechnology medicines.
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NEW YORK - One Staten Island politician apparently doesn't have a sweet tooth for a locally-made vanilla ice cream with brownie chunks and cherries.
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SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Is putting Heinz ketchup on a burger tantamount to supporting John Kerry for president?    An upstate New York lawmaker apparently thinks so...
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The Senate on Thursday night dropped an amendment to the farm bill that would have banned fatty foods and high-calorie beverages at school snack bars, stores and vending machines, dealing a blow to its chances of passage.
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The U.S. Congress left behind an  unusually long list of stalled or dead bills -- from energy and  transportation to health care and federal spending -- as  lawmakers went home to ask voters to re-elect them next month.
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Unable to extend tax breaks as part of a broad energy bill two months ago, lawmakers are trying to attach some of them to an emergency economic aid package containing rebates for millions of taxpayers.
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The lawmaker who may cause the most headaches for the Bush administration when Democrats take control of Congress is a grocer's son from Watts who's hardly a household name off Capitol Hill.
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Spinach grown outside California's Salinas Valley got the all-clear from federal health officials Friday, but it could be days before the leafy green returns to store shelves.