Capitol Hill fight over foreign food aid
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The Bush administration is fighting congressional efforts to slash the amount of emergency food aid the United States provides around the world, saying the cuts could hurt as many as 8 million people in dire need.
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Restaurants, under fire from health advocates for too-big servings and not enough detail on nutrition, are fighting back.
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The World Food Program said Thursday that it is racing against time to deliver food to some 600,000 needy Afghans in villages that will soon be cut off by heavy winter snow.
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_ Three New York lawmakers on Thursday joined the growing chorus of Republicans criticizing the United Nations over the oil-for-food scandal, urging Congress to withhold dues payments to the world body.
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Dozens of world leaders on  Monday embraced a campaign to raise an additional $50 billion a  year in development aid to combat hunger, but a U.S. official  poured cold water on the initiative.
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WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration, under pressure from a Democratic-controlled Congress to do something about America's soaring trade deficit, filed a trade case Friday against China in a dispute involving government subsidies.
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To: POLITICAL EDITORS  Contact: Marti Pupillo of International Dairy Foods Association, +1-202-220-3535   WASHINGTON, Feb.
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Powell withheld $16 million in assistance last year for the same reason. A congressional statute requires assistance be denied unless the secretary of state certifies that the Serbian government is cooperating ...
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LONDON - As we recover from the battle for the last piece of pumpkin pie over the Thanksgiving holiday, consider the much bigger food fight brewing between the United States and the European Union.
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By Tri-City Herald, Kennewick, Wash.  Feb. 18--A proposed federal farm bill could see some local farmers losing their subsidies and others gaining much needed dollars for research, development and marketing.
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year in development aid to combat global hunger, but the United States has poured cold water on the project. &quot;The greatest scandal is not that hunger exists but that it persists even when we have the means to eliminate it.
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Federal panel redraws 'food pyramid' to curb obesity, touching off a lobbying war.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's failure to discuss clearly its strategy and the money needed to better protect the country's food supply could make it harder for a plan to succeed, a congressional watchdog agency told lawmakers on Tuesday.
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The Bush administration may be jeopardizing consumers as it presses Congress to approve free-trade agreements with countries with dubious food-safety records, a new report warned on Wednesday.
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The high cost of tortillas and other food staples has consumed politics and spilled into the ever-simmering debate over Mexicoâs commitment to free-market economics.
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Members of Congress are pushing for quick action on aid to survivors of the Asian tsunami, but the Bush administration has plenty of money already to launch its relief operations in the Indian Ocean basin, congressional officials said Wednesday.
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Consumer advocates and some lawmakers say that a Salinas Valley company's recall of spinach because of a salmonella scare shows that the federal government must do more to protect the nation's food supply, but industry officials call it proof that their voluntary regulations are working.