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Letters to the Editor - June 6
Elected Democrats put regional airport at risk To the editor: The Washington County Republican Central Committee applauds the excellent work of the current County Commissioners, who are focused on leveraging Hagerstown Regional Airport to stimulate...Tags: Air Transportation Industry, Immigration, Personal Income, U.S. Senate, Voting
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Government sequestration could affect Hagerstown Regional Airport
caleb.calhoun@herald-mail.comWith less than a week remaining before federal budget cuts could go into effect, federal agencies and parks, the military, hospitals, doctors, and Hagerstown Regional Airport, prepare for the ramifications if Congress fails to pass legislation to avoid it...Tags: Unemployment, Air Transportation Industry, Michael J. Astrue , Kathleen Sebelius, U.S. Department of Transportation
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Casey: House bill could prompt layoffs at Letterkenny Army Depot
waynesboro@herald-mail.comU.S. Sen. Bob Casey announced concerns Thursday about a defense bill recently passed by the House of Representatives that includes a provision he says could dramatically affect operations and prompt layoffs at Letterkenny Army Depot north of Chambersburg....Tags: U.S. House Committee on Appropriations, Unemployment, U.S. House of Representatives, Daniel Inouye, Career and Workplace
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Congress asked to OK $43 million for more multienforcement aircraft
arnoldp@herald-mail.comA top official at the Sierra Nevada Corp. plant near Hagerstown said Wednesday that federal funding is being sought to enable the company to continue producing special surveillance planes for U.S. Customs and Border Protection through 2013. Jack...Tags: U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Politics, Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland), U.S. Department of Defense, Elections
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Pa. lawmakers return to work on budget, major bills
Associated PressPennsylvania state lawmakers returned to Harrisburg on Monday for several more weeks of work to wrap up a new state budget and potentially a variety of other major bills being sought by Gov. Tom Corbett. Majority Republicans in both chambers expected a...Tags: Judges, Executive Branch, Jake Corman, Democratic Party, Unemployment Benefits
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Pa. Senate approves school voucher bill
A major proposal to spend more taxpayer money to help possibly tens of thousands of lower-income families in Pennsylvania avoid struggling public schools and afford the cost of private or parochial school tuition for their children passed the state...Tags: Parochial Schools, Academic Progress, Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers, Religious Education, Executive Branch
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Senate committee taking up VA claims backlog
WASHINGTONWASHINGTON – The Senate Appropriations Committee will consider a 10-point plan this week to address the claims backlog at the Department of Veterans Affairs, Chairwoman Barbara A. Mikulski said Tuesday. “When our veterans return from war,...Tags: Veterans Affairs, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Career and Workplace, Computing and Information Technology Industry, U.S. Department of Defense
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Column: Head-in-the-sand Congress
Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., a former chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, is hopping mad. Sensenbrenner considers himself the father of the Patriot Act, the 2001 law that gave the federal government new powers to investigate potential...Tags: Judges, Jeff Merkley, U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary, Jane Harman, Mark Udall
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Military sexual assault: Senate approves new procedures
The Senate Armed Services Committee endorsed several steps to improve prosecution of military sexual assault on Wednesday during a rare open debate of its annual defense policy bill, but it killed a controversial proposal opposed by Pentagon leaders....
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NSA chief: Surveillance programs thwarted 'dozens of terrorist plots'
This post has been updated, as indicated below.WASHINGTON -- The director of the National Security Agency portrayed the collection of millions of U.S. telephone records each day as a limited program designed to thwart terrorist plots, but made it clear that the NSA needed only a "reasonable suspicion"...Tags: Booz Allen Hamilton Inc., Edward Snowden, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Career and Workplace, Labor Legislation
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Pennsylvania Democrats strike out in bid to expand Medicaid to working poor
HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania Democrats struck out Monday in their attempts to expand government-funded Medicaid health insurance to hundreds of thousands of working poor as part of the federal Affordable Care Act. First up was Sen. Vince Hughes, D-...Tags: Delaware County, Executive Branch, Finance, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Elections
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