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BATON ROUGE, La. AP 鈥?As Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu readies for the only debate she ;ll
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WASHINGTON 鈥?No one listened to Tom Vilsack.As agriculture secretary during the entire Obama administration, the former Iowa governor has for years been telling anyone who will pay attention 鈥?farmers, members of Congress, even Hillary Clinton 鈥?that Democrats need a better message for rural America. And he spent most of his tenure focusing on rural development, trying to revitalize areas that ultimately voted for Republican Donald Trump in this year presidential election.The Democratic Party, in my opinion, has not made as much of an effort as it ought to, to speak to rural voters, Vilsack said Tuesday in an interview with The Associated Press. What frustrating to me is that we actually have something we can say to them, and we have chosen, for whatever reason, not to say it.Vilsack is a longtime
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WASHINGTON 鈥?An agency ethics official at the Environmental Protection Agency says Administrator Scott Pruitt lease of a Capitol Hill condo tied to a prominent fossil-fuels lobbyist didn ;t violate federal ethics rules.A memo signed by Kevin Minoli contends that Pruitt $50-a-night rental payments constitute a fair market rate. The memo was dated March 30, the day after ABC News first reported Pruitt lived last year in condo co-owned by the wife of Steven Hart, a registered lobbyist whose firm pushed EPA to relax pollution regulations. Pruitt college-aged daughter stayed in the second bedroom while interning at the White House last summer.Minoli 82
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