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Republicans hope for influence in Senate health debate
By David Lightman | McClatchy Newspapers
Republicans Monday had new hope that they could influence health care deliberations — influence that's so far eluded them — as the debate moves to the Senate, where the rules and the politics can work to their advantage. » read more
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Kentucky drug task force Detective Joel Cunigan put on a hazardous materials suit to check if the chemical he found under a trailer was anhydrous ammonia in London, Kentucky.
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Competing programs hamper Kentucky's prescription drug abuse fight
By Halimah Abdullah | McClatchy Newspapers
Kentucky lawmakers are at the center of a political feud over how to best derail the so-called "pain-pill pipeline" from Florida to the Bluegrass State, a multi-state trafficking scheme that has contributed heavily to the state's crippling prescription drug addiction epidemic. A program that bears a powerful Kentucky congressman's name has received four times more funding than another program backed by other less senior lawmakers from the state. » read more
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