Ag secretary expected to run for Senate
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U.S. Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns is expected to resign Thursday to clear the way for a Senate campaign in 2008, giving Republicans a welcome dose of good political news.
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A Senate Judiciary Committee divided along partisan lines advanced Alberto Gonzales' nomination as attorney general to the full Senate Wednesday despite Democratic complaints that he is too close to President Bush to be effective as the nation's top law enforcement official.
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USDA Secretary Mike Johanns has ordered that agency administrators come up with a plan for replacing an aging AS/400-based system that administers farming programs and issues payments to farmers.
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On his first campaign trip into Illinois farm country, Republican Senate candidate Alan Keyes said Thursday he no longer favors abolishing the U.S. Agriculture Department.
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President Bush on Thursday selected Nebraska Gov. Mike Johanns, a Republican attorney who grew up on an Iowa dairy farm, as secretary of Agriculture to oversee the nation&#39;s farm and food programs.
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US Sen. Jon Kyl&#39;s familiarity with border issues would serve the state well if President Bush were to pick the Arizona Republican as his new secretary of homeland security, Gov.
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Senators on Thursday urged President Bush' pick for agriculture secretary to work with farm-state lawmakers on the five-year farm bill that has stalled in talks between Congress and the administration.
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By Stephens Washington Bureau  Stephens Washington Bureau   WASHINGTON - Ranchers would be paid to conserve rangeland vulnerable to wildfires, under a bill Nevada senators introduced on Monday.
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One might expect Republican senators to cheer the prospect of a colleague becoming the party's presidential nominee.
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New Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns began his tenure Monday by pledging to get American beef exports moving again to Japan, a lucrative market that has been closed to U.S. producers since the discovery of mad cow disease in this country in December 2003.
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President Bush nominated Mike Johanns to serve as agriculture secretary. A transcript of the announcement follows. I am pleased to announce my nomination of Governor Mike Johanns to be the secretary of agriculture.
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WASHINGTON -- The Senate confirmed Andrew von Eschenbach, President Bush's nominee to head the Food and Drug Administration, after lawmakers blocked a vote for months because of complaints about the agency.
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President Bush on Thursday chose Nebraska Gov. Mike Johanns as secretary of agriculture to oversee the nation's farm and food programs, an administration official said.
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By LIBBY QUAID  WASHINGTON - Demand for ethanol for cars will attract enough support to lead to passage of a major farm bill next year, despite disagreement on subsidy payments for farmers, a key Democrat and the Republican agriculture secretary agreed Tuesday.
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President Bush said on Thursday he  would nominate Nebraska Gov. Mike Johanns to be the next  secretary of agriculture.
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It was sudden, but certainly no surprise. The state&#39;s attorney general, who has long been talking about a run for governor, has made his candidacy official.
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By The Buffalo News, N.Y.  Feb. 9--U.S. Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns was the governor of Nebraska and a farm kid born and bred.