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House panel approves $3.8 bln farm disaster aid (Reuters)
Filed: March 15th 2007: US

Reuters - The House Appropriations Committee
on Thursday approved an estimated $3.8 billion in disaster
relief that farmers and ranchers say they need but that the
Bush administration has not endorsed.

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