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Michael Owen "Mike" Johanns (born June 18, 1950) is an Republican American politician who has been the junior United States Senator from Nebraska since 2009. Previously he was the 38th Governor of Nebraska from 1999 to 2005 and was United States Secretary of Agriculture from 2005 to 2007, becoming the fourth Nebraskan to hold the position.
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The EPA has responded to concerns among Nebraska farmers and their Capitol Hill representatives about the agency's use of aerial surveillance to monitor livestock, saying the flights are to enforce federal laws regarding impaired watersheds such as rivers and streams.
An Environmental Protection Agency spokesman told FoxNews.com the agency has used the practice for nearly a decade a cost-efficient way for it and state governments to reduce the number of on-site inspections and focus on "areas of the greatest concerns."The flights are used across a swath of Midwest the agency calls Section 7, which is composed of Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas and Missouri.The flights recently attracted the attention of a bipartisan group of Senate and House members from Nebraska, who this week wrote the EPA with a list on nearly two dozen concerns. "Farmers and ranchers in Nebraska pride themselves in the stewardship of our state's natural resources. As you might imagine, this practice has resulted in privacy ...The steel is staged, and crews are waiting to lay the last and most expensive leg of TransCanada Corp.'s multibillion-dollar pipeline network that would carry Canadi...
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Sen. Ben Nelson's popularity in Nebraska has plummeted in the course of the health care debate, with a new survey putting the Democratic senator's approval rating at...
A bipartisan group of Capitol Hill lawmakers is pressing EPA Director Lisa Jackson to answer questions about privacy issues and other concerns after the agency used ...
Pressure is building for a top-to-bottom review of ACORN in the wake of undercover videos showing the organization giving advice on how to skirt federal laws, with a...
Questioned by senators he once served with, Jon Corzine told a panel Tuesday that he never told anyone to "misuse" customer money that vanished when MF Global collap...
President Obama might be compelled to make a decision on the Keystone pipeline before the election after all. Though the president just rejected a permit for the con...
Democrats lamented U.S. Sen. Ben Nelson's decision to retire rather than seek a third term in Nebraska, fearing the move sets up Republicans for an easy and crucial ...
A federal appeals court on Friday threw out a decision that had barred Congress from withholding funds from ACORN, the activist group driven to ruin by scandal and f...
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama says one answer to high gasoline prices is to spend money developing renewable energy sources."That's the key to helping familie...
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