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Republican U.S. Senator representing Kansas, serving on committees overseeing agriculture, veterans affairs, and appropriations.
Three livestock associations say ICE operations kept workers home and delayed thousands of cattle shipments, costing millions of dollars in lost revenue. Feed yards holding returned cattle pay first, and beef prices rise only if the absences last.
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STAT reports lobbyists are laying groundwork to delay or unwind the cuts. The winnable version looks like schedule changes and rural side funds, not restored baseline funding.
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The Senate's 49-50 cloture vote leaves the question of when a token is a security inside SEC and CFTC rulemaking. Institutions weighing capital commitments now underwrite rules a future agency can rewrite.
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Cloture on H.R. 3633 failed 49-50 on Sept. 15 with every yes vote Republican. Add the four Republican noes back to the yes column and the count reaches 53, still seven short of the 60 the Senate requires.
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The telescope's first proposal round came back twelvefold oversubscribed. Hubble and Webb have posted the same result for years: the figure describes how much telescope time exists, not Roman's standing in particular.
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