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Maya Schenwar, Truthout: 'In at least 36 states, Republicans have introduced legislation requiring applicants to public assistance programs - including food stamps, unemployment benefits and heating subsidies - to pass a drug test before receiving help. They are selling it as a route to kill two societal ills with one budget-slashing stone. By erecting barriers to aid for all (and denying it to needy people suffering from addiction), these lawmakers claim they ll ameliorate both drug problems and economic hardship.'

http://www.truth-out.org/war-drug-addicts-and-everyone-else/1324307642



Extension of Tax Cut Stalls in House as GOP Objects

Jennifer Steinhauer, The New York Times News Service: 'The deal slid off the rails abruptly on Saturday, just hours after the Senate vote, when House Republicans balked after being briefed about the terms by their leaders. Even a sweetener provision to speed the decision process for construction of an oil pipeline from Canada to the Gulf Coast could not mollify them. Mr. Boehner had called the provision a 'victory.'

http://www.truth-out.org/extension-tax-cut-stalls-house-gop-objects/1324305046



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